Research Catalog

Title

The establishment of modern Chinese grammar : the formation of the resultative construction and its effects / Yuzhi Shi.

Author

Shi, Yuzhi, 1963-

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2002.

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Details

Description

xi, 262 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 59

Uniform Title

Studies in language companion series ; v. 59.

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Resultative constructions
• Chinese language > Grammar
• Resultativ
• Valenz Linguistik
• Lexikalisierung
• Historische Syntax
• Chinees
• Werkwoordsvormen
• Grammaticalisering
• Woordvorming
• Chinese language > Resultative constructions
• Chinesisch

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-256) and index.

Contents

Stages of Chinese for the sake of grammatical evolution -- Transcriptions of the tones in Standard Chinese -- Major chronological divisions of Chinese history -- 1. Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- Periodization of the history of Chinese language -- The vernacular texts of the present research -- Recent research on the development of the resultative construction -- 2. The resultative construction in Modern Chinese -- Definition -- Syntax -- Phonological properties -- Syntactic constructions needing a VR phrases -- More types of resultative constructions -- 3. The sources of the resultative construction -- Serial verb construction -- Causative forms in Old and Middle Chinese -- The formation of the separable resultative structure -- Case studies -- 4. Disyllabification and fusion of verb and resultative -- The development of disyllabification tendency -- Fusion of V and R -- 5. Idiomatization, lexicalization and frequency of collocation -- Frequency and syntactic change -- Idiomatization and lexicalization -- Case studies -- The negative potential form -- Theoretical implications -- 6. Structure for the fusion of verb and resultative -- The structure of the emergence of the resultative construction -- Adjacency and the first appearances of the resultative construction -- Structure and extension scope of grammatical markers -- Continuity of syntactic changes -- The mechanism of analogy -- 7. Semantic relevance -- VR phrases and serial verb construction -- Ending point and the development of "V + directional verb" -- The redistribution of prepositional phrases -- Grammatical relation of R and the fusion degree of V and R -- Time words -- Semantic generality and inflections -- Theoretical implications -- 8. Effects on morphology and word formation -- Verb inflections -- The formation of verbs -- The disappearance of causative inflections -- Verb reduplication -- The boundedness of the predicate -- The negative Perfect -- 9. Effects on syntax -- The semantics of the patient arguments and their distribution -- Grammaticalization of verb in preverbal position -- 10. Conclusion -- The development of the resultative construction -- The effects on Chinese grammar -- Theoretical issues about language change -- An area for future research.

ISBN

• 1588112039
• 9781588112033
• 9027230625
• 9789027230621

LCCN

2001058310

OCLC

• ocm48579256
• 48579256
• SCSB-1243116

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library