The Syntax of Chinese by C.-T. James Huang, Y.-H. Audrey Li, Yafei Li

By C.-T. James Huang, Y.-H. Audrey Li, Yafei Li

The previous zone of a century has obvious a surge in chinese language syntactic study that has produced a immense literature at the research of just about each building in Mandarin chinese language. This consultant to chinese language syntax analyses the vast majority of structures in chinese language that experience featured in theoretical linguistics long ago 25 years, utilizing the authors' personal analyses in addition to present or power substitute remedies. A huge number of subject matters are lined, together with different types, argument constitution, passives and anaphora. The dialogue of every subject sums up the most important study effects and offers new issues of departure for extra examine. This publication could be worthy either to scholars eager to be aware of extra in regards to the grammar of chinese language, and graduate scholars and theoretical linguists drawn to the common rules that underlie human languages.

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This makes perfect sense. After all, the matrix clause is itself the largest syntactic construction. As it is not embedded, there is no need for ko. In conclusion, to the extent that we accept Grimshaw’s view that there are functional categories associated with V, analogous to the functional categories associated with N in (55), it is necessary to distinguish two more categories of morphemes, those that introduce embedded clauses, for which the name complementizer (C) is kept, and those that signal the types of clauses, which we call clause-typers (CT).

2 As opposed to nouns Given the fact that A patterns with N according to the dui test, it seems appropriate to assign [+N] to A. But it is equally clear that A and N have different syntactic behaviors. Most relevant to the current concern is the use of the copular shi. As the predicate of a clause, NP typically requires shi, with the option of omitting it in highly colloquial speech. The adjective phrase (AP) predicate, however, rejects shi completely. The contrast is shown below: Categories (38) 25 a.

Technical details need to be worked out, but (27) can easily explain the intuition that when someone sits by the ‘backside,’ as in (25b), he sits by the backside of something obvious from the discourse. As we know, such reference is typical of pronouns. In contrast, claiming a clitic to take a phonetically empty pronoun as host would seem to run against the very notion of cliticization. 3 Adjectives There are reasons for distinguishing adjectives from verbs in Chinese, in spite of the fact that a Chinese adjective functions as the predicate of a clause without the help of a copular verb.

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