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1 online resource |
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Studies in Chinese language and discourse ; v. 1 |
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Studies in Chinese language and discourse ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
Chinese Grammar at Work; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents ; Preface ; Abbreviations ; Glossing conventions ; Transcription conventions ; Chapter 1. Introduction ; 1.1 The empirical turn ; 1.2 Some findings from working with naturally occurring data ; 1.2.1 Syntax of the word of ; 1.2.2 Raising construction ; 1.2.3 Constancy of percentage of nouns ; 1.2.4 Emergence of epistemic formulae ; 1.2.5 Left dislocation ; 1.2.6 Syntax of adjectives ; 1.2.7 Classifiers ; 1.2.8 Adverbial clauses ; 1.3 Discourse pragmatics in the shaping of syntax ; 1.4 Database |
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1.5 Organization of the book Chapter 2. The dynamics of the clausal structure ; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.2 An illustration ; 2.3 Types of IUs ; 2.4 Clause fragments ; 2.5 Attached and unattached NP IUs ; 2.6 Topic hierarchy ; 2.7 Connectives linking IUs ; 2.8 Connectives and prosody ; 2.9 Pause markers and language production ; 2.10 Sources of messy syntax ; 2.11 Interactional and cognitive motivations ; 2.12 Conclusion ; Note ; Chapter 3. Constituency and patterns of syntactic contiguity ; 3.1 Sequential contiguity and constituent relation ; 3.2 Prosodic grouping ; 3.3 Emergent structural units |
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3.4 Locally contingent categories 3.5 Extensions ; 3.6 Repair and constituency ; 3.7 Conclusion ; Note ; Chapter 4. Pragmatics of word order ; 4.1 Introduction ; 4.2 Database ; 4.3 Methodology ; 4.4 Basic word order ; 4.5 Valency role orders ; 4.6 Word order and information statuses of NPs ; 4.7 Word order, identifiability and generality ; 4.8 Topicality hierarchy ; 4.9 "Subject"-like properties of NPs in clause-initial position ; 4.10 Indeterminacy in the semantics and syntax of non-canonical constructions ; 4.11 Discussion and conclusion ; Notes ; Chapter 5. Referring expressions |
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5.1 Introduction 5.2 Cognitive statuses and referring expressions in Mandarin ; 5.2.1 Givenness hierarchy ; 5.2.2 The indefinite yi N ; 5.2.3 The emergence of the definite article in Mandarin ; 5.2.4 Uses of demonstrative determiners in Conversation ; 5.2.5 Summary ; 5.3 Referring expressions and the accessibility scale ; 5.3.1 Database ; 5.3.2 Accessibility and referential distance ; 5.3.3 Accessibility and competition ; 5.3.4 Accessibility and saliency ; 5.3.5 Summary ; 5.4 Degrees of accessibility: Finer distinctions ; 5.4.1 High accessibility markers: ZA and pronoun |
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5.4.2 Medium accessibility markers: Determinate NPs 5.4.3 Low accessibility markers ; 5.5 Conclusion ; Notes ; Chapter 6. Classifiers and classifier constructions ; 6.1 Introduction ; 6.2 What classifers are ; 6.3 Types of numeral classifiers ; 6.4 Abstract nouns and an incipient mass/count distinction ; 6.5 Cognitive explanation ; 6.6 Affordance and blending classifiers: beyond sortal and mensural ; 6.7 Verbal classifiers ; 6.8 Classifier constructions ; 6.9 Some observations on the historical evolution of numeral classifiers ; 6.10 Conclusion ; Note |
| Summary |
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 structur |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Chinese language -- Grammar
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Chinese language -- Grammar -- Study and teaching
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Chinese philology.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
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Chinese language -- Grammar
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Chinese language -- Grammar -- Study and teaching
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Chinese philology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789027271365 |
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9027271364 |
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