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Brings together historical and crosslinguistic evidence from more than 20 different languages representing six different language families spanning the Asian continent and the Pacific and Indian oceans to elucidate the strategies and grammaticalization pathways that give rise to referential and non-referential uses of nominalization constructions.

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Author:   Foong Ha Yap (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) ,  Karen Grunow-Hårsta (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) ,  Janick Wrona (Oxford University)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   96
Weight:   1.630kg
ISBN:  

9789027206770

ISBN 10:   9027206775
Pages:   796
Publication Date:   29 June 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Acknowledgment to reviewers; 3. List of contributors; 4. Introduction: Nominalization strategies in Asian languages (by Yap, Foong Ha); 5. From light noun to nominalizer and more: The grammaticalization of zhe and suo in Old and Middle Chinese (by Yap, Foong Ha); 6. On the polyfunctionality and grammaticalization of the morpheme kai in the Chaozhou dialect (by Xu, Hui Ling); 7. The Cantonese ge3 (by Sio, Joanna); 8. On gerundive nominalization in Mandarin and Cantonese (by Tang, Sze-Wing); 9. Nominalization in Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayan area: A typological perspective (by Genetti, Carol); 10. Aspects of the historical development of nominalizers in the Tamangic languages (by Noonan, Michael); 11. Innovation in nominalization in Magar: A Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal (by Grunow-Harsta, Karen); 12. Nominalization and nominalization-based constructions in Galo (by Post, Mark W.); 13. Nominalization in Numhpuk Singpho (by Morey, Stephen); 14. Nominalization in Nuosu Yi (by Hongyong, Liu); 15. Finite structures from clausal nominalization in Tibeto-Burman (by DeLancey, Scott); 16. Linker, relativizer, nominalizer, tense-particle: On the Ezafe in West Iranian (by Haig, Geoffrey L.J.); 17. Nominalization and stance marking in Korean (by Rhee, Seongha); 18. A case of non-derived stand-alone nominalization: Evidence from Japanese (by Wrona, Janick); 19. Nominalization in Okinawan: From a diachronic and comparative perspective (by Shinzato, Rumiko); 20. Versatility of nominalizations: Where Japanese and Korean contrast (by Horie, Kaoru); 21. The functions of -an and =ay in Kavalan (by Hsieh, Fuhui); 22. Clausal nominalization in Budai Rukai (by Sung, Li-May); 23. Nominalization in Saisiyat (by Yeh, Marie Meili); 24. Rise and fall of referentiality: Articles in Philippine languages (by Nagaya, Naonori); 25. Referential and non-referential uses of nominalization constructions in Malay (by Yap, Foong Ha); 26. Expressing exclamatives in Malagasy (by Potsdam, Eric); 27. Nominalizations in Toqabaqita and closely related languages (by Lichtenberk, Frantisek); 28. Exclamatives and temporal nominalizations in Austronesian (by Kaufman, Daniel); 29. Discourse-structuring functions of Abui demonstratives (by Kratochvil, Frantisek); 30. Index; 31. Language index

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