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Author Li, Wendan, author.

Title Grounding in Chinese written narrative discourse / by Wendan Li
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (281 pages)
Series 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Chinese language -- Spoken language -- Research
Chinese language -- Spoken language -- Data processing
Discourse analysis, Narrative -- China
Mandarin dialects -- Research -- China
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Language and languages
SUBJECT China -- Languages. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024150
Subject China
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018005376
ISBN 9789004360884
9004360883