The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics
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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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- ISBN-13: 9781138241329
- ISBN-10: 1138241326
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: February 2017
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.06 pounds
- Page Count: 230
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