Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese II

Reference and Grammatical Category
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-37399-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Chinese Linguistics

The functional perspective on Chinese syntax has yielded various new achievements since its introduction to Chinese linguistics in the 1980s.

This two-volume book is one of the earliest and most influential works to study the Chinese language using functional grammar. With local Beijing vernacular (Pekingese) as a basis, the information structure and focus structure of the Chinese language are systematically examined. By using written works and recordings from Beijingers, the authors discuss topics such as the relationship between word order and focus, and the distinction between normal focus and contrastive focus.

In addition, the authors also subject the reference and grammatical categories of the Chinese language to a functional scrutiny while discussion of word classes and their functions creatively combines modern linguistic theories and traditional Chinese linguistic theories. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese linguistics and linguistics in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, Bojiang

Fang, Mei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of tables

List of abbreviations

PART I

Reference

1 Chinese nouns and non-referential expression

2 Referential vs. non-referential: the possessive construction

3 Indefinite objects in ba-sentences

4 Functional extension of the reference category

PART II

Grammatical categories

5 Space and time: cognitive basis and functional shifting of word classes

6 Rhetorical conversion and grammatical conversion

7 Scope and hierarchies of qualitative adjectives

8 Predicate adjectives in modern Chinese

9 Grammaticalization of the tentative category

Bibliography

Index