The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics (Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics)

Wu, Yicheng

ISBN 10: 1138241326 / ISBN 13: 9781138241329

Edité par Routledge, 2017

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N° de réf. du vendeur I-9781138241329

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• Titre: The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics (Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics)
• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1138241326
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781138241329
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics provides an in-depth exploration of a variety of interface phenomena in Chinese, a non-inflectional language, where to a large extent word order constrains its interpretation and defines its grammatical functions. Under the Dynamic Syntax approach, which takes the incremental left-to-right processing of linguistic forms to be a fundamental part of characterizing the relation between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation, a straightforward explanation is provided. The study features detailed analysis of a range of key grammatical constructions such as topic, passive, copular and cleft, where previous analyses were sought in pure syntactic, semantic or pragmatic terms.

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Yicheng Wu is Professor of Linguistics at the Centre for the Study of Language and Cognition, Zhejiang University, P. R. China.