Clause Combination in Chinese / Halvor Eifring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eifring, Halvor, author.

Series:

Sinica Leidensia ; 32.

Sinica Leidensia Online, ISBN: 9789004498488.

Sinica Leidensia ; 32

Sinica Leidensia Online, ISBN: 9789004498488

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Clauses.

Chinese language.

Chinese language--Syntax.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1994.

Summary:

Clause Combination in Chinese is an abundantly documented study of composite sentences in Modern Chinese, their semantic properties and syntactic behaviour. It discusses the extent of language variation, the relation between synchrony and diachrony, the nature of grammaticalization, generality and gradience, and the non-uniqueness of syntactic analysis. The first part provides a new categorization of clause combinations and clause connectives. It introduces a class of connectives often combining units larger than the sentence. It also discusses the frequent non-use of clause connectives in Chinese composite sentences. The second part contains case studies of composite sentences with unusual semantic properties, among them a hitherto unrecognized pattern with no English counterpart: adverbial clauses expressing necessity. The book should be of interest to all students of Chinese linguistics and to general linguists concerned with sentence complexity.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Halvor Eifring

Acknowledgements / Halvor Eifring

Abbreviations / Halvor Eifring

Introduction / Halvor Eifring

Chapter One Monocentric and Polycentric Sentences / Halvor Eifring

Chapter Two Classification of Clause Connectives / Halvor Eifring

Chapter Three Text-Organizing Connectives / Halvor Eifring

Chapter Four Non-Use of Clause Connectives / Halvor Eifring

Chapter Five Grammaticalization of Clause Connectives / Halvor Eifring

Chapter Six Clauses of Necessity / Halvor Eifring

Chapter Seven The Lack of Counterfactuals / Halvor Eifring

Chapter Eight Indirect Adverbial Clauses / Halvor Eifring

Chapter Nine The Uses of Rúguǒ Shuō [CHINESE TEXT] / Halvor Eifring

Chapter Ten The Use of Clause-Final Shí [CHINESE TEXT] / Halvor Eifring

Appendix A List of Clause Connectives / Halvor Eifring

Appendix B Nàme [CHINESE TEXT] vs. Suǒyǐ [CHINESE TEXT] / Halvor Eifring

Primary Sources / Halvor Eifring

Secondary Sources / Halvor Eifring

Journals / Halvor Eifring

Index / Halvor Eifring

Sinica Leidensia / Halvor Eifring.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Clause Combination in Chinese.

ISBN:

9789004482739

9789004101463

OCLC:

622555689

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004482739 DOI

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.