Newest trends in the study of grammaticalization and lexicalization in Chinese / edited by Janet Zhiqun Xing.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Xing, Janet Zhiqun.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 236.

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 236

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Grammar.

Chinese language.

Chinese language--Lexicology.

Chinese language--Semantics.

Chinese language--Syntax.

Physical Description:

306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]

Summary:

For some three decades, scholars have been studying how a lexical item or a construction transforms to serve a grammatical function. Lexicalization is the reverse process, though in some contexts the word has a different meaning entirely. This research has been conducted almost exclusively in Indo-European and African languages, but linguists here investigate the phenomenon in Chinese. Their topics include the development of the Chinese aspectual sentence-final marker ye, a construction grammar approach to the grammaticalization of the directional verb lái, the semantic historical development of modal verbs of volition in Chinese, semantic changes in the grammaticalization of classifiers in Mandarin Chinese, and lexicalization in the history of the Chinese language. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The development of the Chinese aspectual sentence-final marker ye / Qianrui Chen Chen, Qianrui 21

The emergence of a definite article in Beijing Mandarin: The evolution of the proximal demonstrative zhè / Mei Fang Fang, Mei 55

The grammaticalization of the directional verb 'lái': A construction grammar approach / Cheng-hui Liu Liu, Cheng-hui 87

The degree-evaluative construction: Grammaticalization in constructionalization / Mei-Chun Liu Liu, Mei-Chun, Chun Chang Chang, Chun 115

The semantic historical development of modal verbs of volition in Chinese / Alain Peyraube Peyraube, Alain, Ming Li Li, Ming 149

Semantic change in the grammaticalization of classifiers in Mandarin Chinese / Janet Zhiqun Xing Xing, Janet Zhiqun 169

The repeater in Chinese and other languages / Cheng Zhang Zhang, Cheng 215

Lexicalization in the history of the Chinese language / Xiufang Dong Dong, Xiufang 235

Argument structure change, reanalysis and lexicalization: Grammaticalization of transitive verbs into ditransitive verbs in Chinese, Japanese and English / Feng-fu Tsao Tsao, Feng-fu 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110252996

3110252996

OCLC:

747314110