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Students and instructors are able to use this classic work as a key and trustworthy reference to learn about how functional grammar is used in Chinese linguistics. This work would benefit all students, from novice to advanced, who use functional grammar to study Chinese linguistics. This book is one of the ealiest and most authoratitive work acknowledge and widely used by generations of scholars.

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Author:   Bojiang Zhang ,  Mei Fang ,  Mei Fang
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight:   0.866kg
ISBN:  

9781032236995

ISBN 10:   103223699
Pages:   470
Publication Date:   13 December 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Volume I List of figures List of tables List of abbreviations Introduction: corpus and approach PART I Information structure 1 Thematic structure of spoken Pekingese 2 Thematic structure in narration: sentence-middle modal particles 3 Thematic structure in conversation: an analysis of translocation PART II Focus structure 4 Word order: object vs. directional complement 5 Word order: object vs. verbal classifier 6 Means for contrastive focus representation PART III Backgrounding constructions 7 A transitivity interpretation of serial verb constructions in Chinese 8 Imperfective clause V? 9 Zero cataphora of clause subject Bibliography Index Volume II List of figures List of tables List of abbreviations PART I Reference 1 Chinese nouns and non-referential expression 2 Referential vs. non-referential: the possessive construction 3 Indefinite objects in ba-sentences 4 Functional extension of the reference category PART II Grammatical categories 5 Space and time: cognitive basis and functional shifting of word classes 6 Rhetorical conversion and grammatical conversion 7 Scope and hierarchies of qualitative adjectives 8 Predicate adjectives in modern Chinese 9 Grammaticalization of the tentative category Bibliography Index

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Bojiang Zhang is a professor from the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is currently the Editor-in-chief of Literary Review( ???? ). He is also a professor at University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Fudan University and Renmin University of China. He has been working on syntactic theory, functional grammar and discourse analysis of Chinese. Mei Fang is a professor from the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She is currently the Deputy Editor-in-chief of Studies of the Chinese Language ( ???? ) and the vice president of Chinese Language Society. She has been working on Chinese grammar and discourse analysis with the functional approach, focusing on the emergent nature of grammatical patterns, pragmaticalization, and grammar in interaction.

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