Encoding motion events in Mandarin Chinese : a cognitive functional study / Jingxia Lin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lin, Jingxia, author.

Series:

Studies in Chinese language and discourse ; v. 11.

Studies in Chinese language and discourse (SCLD), 1879-5382 ; volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mandarin dialects--Verb.

Mandarin dialects.

Cognitive grammar.

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.

Physical Description:

xiv, 209 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

"This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal motion morphemes is closely associated to the meanings they lexicalize. The book is not only the first work that proposes a finer-grained classification and diagnostics of Chinese motion morphemes from the perspective of scale structure, but also the first to more comprehensively account for the ordering of Chinese motion morphemes. The findings of this study will not only enrich the literature on motion events, but more importantly, further our understanding of the nature of motion events and the way motion events are conceived and represented in the Chinese language. The major proposals and the scalar approach of this work will also shed light on studies beyond motion. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars interested in motion events, syntax-semantic interface, and typology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Encoding motion in Chinese

"Manner vs. path" or "manner + path"?

Classifying Chinese motion morphemes

Ordering Chinese motion morphemes

Moving beyond motion (verbs).

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Stanford University, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Lin, Jingxia, author. Encoding motion events in Mandarin Chinese

ISBN:

9789027202147

9027202141

OCLC:

1053904183