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Newest Trends in the Study of Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Chinese (Hardcover)
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Newest Trends in the Study of Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Chinese (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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Grammaticalization and lexicalization have been two major issues in
the study of diachronic change in the past few decades. Drawing
evidence from Western languages, researchers have uncovered a
number of characteristics of the process of grammaticalization and
lexicalization, as well as the relationship between the two.
However, the question remains whether or not those characteristics
are applicable to genetically unrelated and typologically different
languages, such as Chinese. The contributors of this volume attempt
to answer just this question. Based on Chinese historical data from
the past three thousand years, five articles in the volume
investigate the development of a certain grammatical category: the
definite article (M. Fang), modal verbs of volition (A. Peyraube
and M. Li), the classifier class (J.Z. Xing), the repeater class
(C. Zhang), and the process of lexicalization (X. Dong), while the
remaining four articles are case studies of unique grammatical
words which have all undergone a complicated process of
grammaticalization and some involved lexicalization: the sentence
particle ye (Q. Chen), the versatile directional verb lai (C. Liu),
the degree adverb hen (M. Liu and C. Chang), and the giving verb
gei (F. Tsao). All these studies have identified tendencies of
diachronic change in Chinese and some of them have also revealed
certain typological characteristics that Chinese has compared to
other languages.
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