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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shi, Yuzhi, 1963-

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 59.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Resultative constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Chinese language--Grammar.

Chinese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book investigates historical motivations for the emergence of the resultative construction in Chinese from the following four aspects: (a) disyllabification, (b)adjacent context, (c) semantic integrity, and (d) frequency of co-occurence of a pair of verb and resultative. The author also addresses a series of grammatical changes and innovations caused by the formation of this resultative construction, such as the development of aspect, mood, verb reduplication, the new predicate structure, the disposal construction, the passive construction, the verb copying construction, and the new topicalization construction, all of which together shape the grammatical system of Modern Chinese. The present analysis raises and discusses a number of theoretical issues that are meaningful to various linguistic disciplines like pragmatics, discourse analysis, grammaticalization, and general historical linguistics.

Contents:

The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Table of contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TABLES

Abbreviations

Stages of Chinese for the sake of grammatical evolution

Transcriptions of the tones in Standard Chinese

Major chronological divisions of Chinese history

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Overview

1.2 Theoretical framework

1.2.1 Grammaticalization

1.2.2 Reanalysis

1.2.3 Analogy

1.2.4 The syntactic framework

1.2.5 The word order of Chinese

1.3 Periodization of the history of the Chinese language

1.4 The vernacular texts of the present research

1.5 Recent research on the development of the resultative construction

1.5.1 Dating

1.5.2 Sources

1.5.3 Motivations

1.5.4 The focus of this book

2 THE RESULTATIVE CONSTRUCTION IN MODERN CHINESE

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Definition

2.3 Syntax

2.3.1 Cline

2.3.2 Underlying grammatical relationships

2.3.3 Transitivity

2.4 Phonological properties

2.4.1 Number of syllables

2.4.2 Stress

2.5 The syntactic constructions needing a VR predicate

2.6 More types of so-called resultative constructions

3 THE SOURCES OF THE RESULTATIVE CONSTRUCTION

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Serial verb construction

3.3 Causative forms in Old and Middle Chinese

3.3.1 Inflection

3.3.2 Auxiliary causative form

3.3.3 The separable resultative structure

3.4 The formation of the separable resultative structure

3.4.1 The decline of the coordinate connective of verbal phrases er

3.4.2 Clause combination

3.5 Case studies

4 DISYLLABIFICATION AND THE FUSION OF VERB AND RESULTATIVE

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The development of the tendency to disyllabification

4.2.1 Disyllabic words in Modern Chinese

4.2.2 Motivation for disyllabification.

4.2.3 The key period for the development of disyllabic words

4.2.4 Effect on the emergence of the resultative construction

4.3 Fusion of V and R

4.3.1 Shimura 's hypothesis

4.3.2 Criterion for the appearance of the resultative construction

4.3.3 Number of syllables in resultatives

4.3.4 The grammaticalization of the potential form

4.3.5 The constraint of the number of syllables on VR phrases

4.4 Summary

5 IDIOMATIZATION, LEXICALIZATION AND FREQUENCY OF COLLOCATION

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Frequency and syntactic change

5.3 Idiomatization and lexicalization

5.4 Case studies

5.5 The negative potential form

5.6 Theoretical implications

5.6.1 The transition between old and new forms

5.6.2 Fusion, grammaticalization and frequency of collocation

5.6.3 Degree of fusion and unidirectionality

5.6.4 Surface forms and grammar

6 STRUCTURE FOR THE FUSION OF VERB AND RESULTATIVE

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The structure of the emergence of the resultative construction

6.3 Adjacency and the first appearances of the resultative construction

6.3.1 The initial stage of the grammaticalization of the aspect marker -le

6.3.2 The experiential marker -guo

6.3.3 The durative marker -zhe

6.4 Structure and extension of grammatical markers

6.5 Continuity of syntactic changes

6.6 The extension of the resultative construction

7 SEMANTIC RELEVANCE

7.1 Introduction

7.2 VR phrases and the serial verb construction

7.3 Ending point and the development of "V + directional verb

7.4 The redistribution of prepositional phrases

7.5 Grammatical relation of R and fusion degree of VR phrases

7.6 Time words

7.7 Semantic generality and inflections

7.8 Theoretical implication

7.8.1 Semantic relevance

7.8.2 Resulting state

8 EFFECTS ON MORPHOLOGY AND WORD FORMATION

8.1 Introduction.

8.2 Verb morphology

8.3 The formation of verbs

8.4 The disappearance of causative inflections

8.5 Verb reduplication

8.6 The boundedness of the predicate

8.7 The negative Perfect

8.8 Conclusion

9 EFFECTS ON SYNTAX

9.1 Introduction

9.2 The semantics of the patient arguments and their distribution

9.2.1 The ba construction

9.2.2 The new topicalization construction

9.2.3 The increase ofpreverbal patient arguments

9.2.4 The verb-copying construction

9.2.5 The new constructions and the existing grammar

9.3 Grammaticalization of verbs in preverbal position

9.3.1 The disposal construction

9.3.2 The passive construction

9.3.3 The lian construction

9.3.4 The comparison structure

9.4 Theoretical issues

10 CONCLUSION

10.1 Introduction

10.2 The development of the resultative construction

10.2.1 The chronology of the resultative construction

10.2.2 Motivations for the emergence of resultative construction

10.3 The effects on the texture of Chinese grammar

10.3.1 The disappearance of old grammatical devices

10.3.2 Word formation of verbs

10.3.3 Verb morphology

10.3.4 The structure of the predicate

10.4 Theoretical issues about language change

10.4.1 Phonological unit

10.4.2 Status change of a linguistic form in grammaticalization

10.4.3 The transition from old to new forms

10.4.4 The pathway of word order shift

10.4.5 Reanalysis and analogy

10.5 An area for future research

REFERENCES

GENERAL INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9786613222398

9789027283030

9027283036

9781283222396

1283222396

OCLC:

744350464