Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese - A formal view (Hardcover)

This book investigates the origin and development of a range of grammatical words in Chinese and how such morphemes have undergone reanalysis as new functional categories via different mechanisms of grammaticalization. Though the majority of work on grammaticalization is carried out in more traditional, descriptive approaches, this book adopts a formal Chomskyean framework and combines this with insights from traditional grammaticalization to attempt to solve a number of puzzles in modern Chinese syntax. The use of a formal theoretic approach to the development of functional categories is shown to result in different kinds of questions being posed relative to grammaticalization, and results in a variety of different insights into processes of reanalysis. Among other topics, the book considers the structure and development of relative clauses, DPs, aspect, tense, and evidential markers in Chinese, and shows how variation in the interpretation of grammatical morphemes can be given a formal modelling which explicitly reduces such variation to properties of the syntactic structure. As the processes of grammaticalization described for Chinese are argued to be cross-linguisti available,

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
Release date:	July 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-33603-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN:	0-415-33603-1
Barcode:	9780415336031

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