Research on functional grammar of Chinese. II, Reference and grammatical category

✍ Scribed by Bojiang Zhang; Mei Fang

Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 203
Series: China perspectives
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Part I Reference
1 Chinese nouns and non-referential expression
2 Referential vs. non-referential: the possessive construction
3 Indefinite objects in bǎ-sentences
4 Functional extension of the reference category
Part II Grammatical categories
5 Space and time: cognitive basis and functional shifting of word classes
6 Rhetorical conversion and grammatical conversion
7 Scope and hierarchies of qualitative adjectives
8 Predicate adjectives in modern Chinese
9 Grammaticalization of the tentative category
Bibliography
Index

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