Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation: Perspectives from East Asian Languages (Curzon Asian Linguistics)

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Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 297
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debated in both theoretical and descriptive linguistics.This volume brings together a series of eleven new cutting-edge essays by leading experts in East Asian languages which shows how the study of formal structures and functional morphemes in Chinese, Japanese and Korean adds much to our general understanding of the close connections between form and interpretation. This specially commissioned collection will be of interest to linguists of all backgrounds working in the general area of syntax and language change, as well as those with a special interest in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

✦ Table of Contents

Book cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series-Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Part I Functional Structure and Processes of Interpretation in the DP/NP......Page 14
1 NP as argument......Page 16
2 Copying variables......Page 41
3 Classifiers and the count/mass distinction......Page 78
4 The demonstratives in modern Japanese......Page 110
Part II Grammaticalization and the diachronic development of functional structure......Page 142
5 On the Re-Analysis of nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean......Page 144
6 Three types of Existential quantification in Chinese......Page 174
7 On the history of place words and localizers in Chinese: A cognitive approach......Page 193
Part III Clause level structures: Processes of interpretation and principles of organization......Page 212
8 Judgments, point of view and the interpretation of causee noun phrases......Page 214
9 A computational approach to case and word order in Korean......Page 235
10 Adjuncts and word order typology in east asian languages......Page 254
11 The distribution of negative NPS and some typological correlates......Page 275

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