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The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics

The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics

ChineseLinguistics

ISBN10: 1138241326
ISBN13: 9781138241329
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 20 2017
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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