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Patientsubject Constructions In Mandarin Chinese Syntax Semantics Discourse Xiaoling He

SKU: BELL-10423176

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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

File Extension: PDF

File size: 1.75 MB

Author: Xiaoling He

ISBN: 9789027203403, 9027203407

Language: English

Year: 2019

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Patientsubject Constructions In Mandarin Chinese Syntax Semantics Discourse Xiaoling He by Xiaoling He 9789027203403, 9027203407 instant download after payment.

"As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood structures in the language. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history, structure, meaning and use of the PSC. Unlike previous descriptions which were framed in terms of pre-existing grammatical notions such as 'topicalization', 'passivization' and 'ergativization', this book offers a fresh look at the PSC, in which its syntactic and semantic as well as its discourse functions are examined within the system of major construction-types of the language as a whole. The PSC, being low in transitivity, serves primarily the function of backgrounding in discourse. Typologically, the PSC bears a resemblance to middle constructions in Indo-European and other languages, raising interesting questions about ways to understand congruent and divergent syntactic structures across the world's languages. This book will be of interest to students of Chinese Linguistics as well as Language Typology"--