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The Cartography of Chinese Syntax - The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 11 (Hardcover)
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The Cartography of Chinese Syntax - The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 11 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
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This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of
Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of
cartography. Cartography is a research program within syntactic
theory that is guided by the view that syntactic structures contain
grammatical and functional information that is ideal for semantic
interpretation - by studying the syntactic structures of a
particular language, syntacticians can better understand the
semantic issues at play in that language. 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, because
functional elements are often spread throughout sentences rather
than clumped together as is usually dictated by language-specific
morphology. Mapping Chinese syntactic structures therefore offers a
window into the origin of heavily "scrambled" constructions often
observed in other languages. The book includes a preface that will
discusses the goal of cartography and explains how the collection
contributes towards our understanding of this approach to syntax.
The subsequent seven original articles all contain original
syntactic data that is invaluable for future research in
cartography, and the collection as a whole paints a broader picture
of how the alignment between syntax and semantics works in a
principled way.
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