Utrecht studies in language and communication, 0927-7706 ; volume 32
Contents
Introduction -- Grounding: a literature review -- Grammatical features of Chinese and previous grounding analysis -- At the verb phrase core: foregrounding through bounding -- In single-verb clauses: constituent order and grounding -- In complex predicates: grounding of verb phrases -- In complex sentences: margins versus nucleus -- Related issues -- Concluding remarks
Summary
In Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse Wendan Li offers a comprehensive account of how Chinese, as a morphologically challenged language, uses grammatical means to highlight (or foreground) major events of a narrative and to demote (or background) other supporting descriptions