The Cartography of Chinese Syntax

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• 256 Seiten
• 9 Lesestunden

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This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. The chapters in this book map out the "topography" of a variety of constructions in Chinese, specifically information structure, wh-question formation, and peripheral functional elements. The syntactic structure of Chinese makes it an ideal language for this line of research, offering a window into the origin of heavily "scrambled" constructions often observed in other languages.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Einband: Paperback