The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar: The Formation of the Resultative Construction and Its Effects

(Book #59 in the Studies in Language Companion Series)

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This book investigates historical motivations for the emergence of the resultative construction in Chinese from the following four aspects: (a) disyllabification, (b)adjacent context, (c) semantic integrity, and (d) frequency of co-occurence of a pair of verb and resultative. The author also addresses a series of grammatical changes and innovations caused by the formation of this resultative construction, such as the development of aspect, mood, verb...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1588112039

ISBN13:9781588112033

Release Date:February 2002

Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company

Length:276 Pages

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The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar: The Formation of the Resultative Construction and Its Effects

(Book #59 in the Studies in Language Companion Series)

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