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Chinese Grammar at Work

By Shuanfan Huang

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
2013
ISBN
902720182X, 9789027201829
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4252920 bytes)
Series
Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse
Pages
470\471
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Time added
2015-09-24 22:12:38
Языки и языкознание;Китайский язык;Грамматика

Description

Chinese Grammar at Work adopts a cognitive-functional approach and uses a corpus-based methodology to examine how Chinese syntax emerges from natural discourse context and what the evolving grammar at work looks like. In this volume the author weaves together an array of fresh perspectives on clause structure, constructions, interactional linguistics, cognitive science and complex dynamic systems to construct a grammar of spoken Chinese. The volume contains discussions of a large number of topics: contiguity relation, the roles of repair strategies in the shaping of constituent structure, non-canonical word order constructions, pragmatics of referring expressions, classifier constructions, noun-modifying constructions, verb complementation, ethnotheory of the person and constructions specific to the language of emotion, sequential sensitivity of linguistic materials, meaning potential in interaction, the nature of variability and stability in Chinese syntax from the perspective of complexity theory. The result is a volume that highlights the connections between language structure, situated and embodied nature of cognition and language use, and affords a true entrée to the exciting realm of Chinese grammar.

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