Chinese grammar at work

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Chinese Grammar at Work adopts a cognitive-functional approach and uses a corpus-based methodology to examine how Chinese syntax emerges from natural discourse context and what the evolving grammar at work looks like. In this volume the author weaves together an array of fresh perspectives on clause structure, constructions, interactional linguistics, cognitive science and complex dynamic systems to construct a grammar of spoken Chinese. The volume contains discussions of a large number of topi…

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Full title :Chinese grammar at work / Shuanfan Huang, National Taiwan University and National Yuan Ze University, Taiwan.

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Publication Date:2013.

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Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9789027271365, 9027271364
oclc:ocn865032845
LC Classification:PL1107
Dewey Decimal:495.15

Chinese Grammar at Work; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents ; Preface ; Abbreviations ; Glossing conventions ; Transcription conventions ; Chapter 1. Introduction ; 1.1 The empirical turn ; 1.2 Some findings from working with naturally occurring data ; 1.2.1 Syntax of the word of ; 1.2.2 Raising construction ; 1.2.3 Constancy of percentage of nouns ; 1.2.4 Emergence of epistemic formulae ; 1.2.5 Left dislocation ; 1.2.6 Syntax of adjectives ; 1.2.7 Classifiers ; 1.2.8 Adverbial clauses ; 1.3 Discourse pragmatics in the shaping of syntax ; 1.4 Database.

1.5 Organization of the book Chapter 2. The dynamics of the clausal structure ; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.2 An illustration ; 2.3 Types of IUs ; 2.4 Clause fragments ; 2.5 Attached and unattached NP IUs ; 2.6 Topic hierarchy ; 2.7 Connectives linking IUs ; 2.8 Connectives and prosody ; 2.9 Pause markers and language production ; 2.10 Sources of messy syntax ; 2.11 Interactional and cognitive motivations ; 2.12 Conclusion ; Note ; Chapter 3. Constituency and patterns of syntactic contiguity ; 3.1 Sequential contiguity and constituent relation ; 3.2 Prosodic grouping ; 3.3 Emergent structural units.

3.4 Locally co…