Clause Combination in Chinese (Sinica Leidensia, Vol 32)

Clause Combination in Chinese (Sinica Leidensia, Vol 32)

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Book Description
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.

Clause Combination in Chinese (Sinica Leidensia, Vol 32),Halvor Eifring,Brill Academic Publishers,9004101462,Architecture,Chinese,Chinese Language,Clauses,General,Interior Design - General,Language,Social Science,Sociology,Syntax,Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure

Book Contents:

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3. Conflict and Accommodation in Early Modern East Asia: Essays in Honour of Erik Zurcher (Sinica Leidensia, Vol 29)
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5. Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, V. 50)
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7. Critica - Untersuchunger Zur Geschichte Der Literaturkritik Zwischen Quintilian Und Thomasius: Untersuchungen Zur Geschichte Der Literaturkritik Zaischen ... (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
8. Cultural Relativism and Philosophy: North and Latin American Perspectives (Philosophy of History and Culture)
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10. Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Sinica Leidensia, Vol 22)

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