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Parts of Speech in Mandarin

The State of the Art

Candice Chi-Hang Cheung (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

146 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-10-0396-7 (ISBN)

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This book offers a comprehensive survey of the major parts of speech in Mandarin. Seeking to identify the sets of universal and language-specific categories, it compares the range of categories available in Mandarin and the Indo-European languages and establishes six universal categories – nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions – and three language-specific ones, namely classifiers, localizers and sentence-final particles. Incorporating insights from recent research findings and the diachronic development of the language, the book sheds new light on the factors that contribute to the long-standing debate on the categorical status of adjectives, prepositions and localizers in the extant literature. Bringing together the earlier general descriptions and the latest advances, it is broadly accessible to non-native and native speakers of the language and offers an ideal reference source for all students and scholars who are interested in studying the parts of speech in Mandarin.

Candice Chi-Hang Cheung is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests lie in formal syntax, syntax–semantics interface, syntax–information structure interface, and parametric syntax with special focus on Cantonese, English, Mandarin and minority languages spoken in mainland China. She has published articles in a number of linguistic journals, such as the Journal of East Asian Linguistics and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

Acknowledgments.- Abbreviations.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part I Categories Found in Mandarin and the Indo-European Languages.- Chapter 2 Nouns.- Chapter 3 Verbs.- Chapter 4 Adjectives.- Chapter 5 Prepositions.- Chapter 6 Adverbs.- Chapter 7 Conjunctions.- Part II Categories Uniquely Available in Mandarin.- Chapter 8 Classifiers.- Chapter 9 Localizers.- Chapter 10 Sentence-Final Particles.- References.- Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Linguistics ; .0
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 146 p.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Comparative studies • comparative syntax • Diachronic Development • Indo-European Languages • Language-specific Categories • Mandarin Language • Parts of Speech • Universal Categories
ISBN-10	981-10-0396-3 / 9811003963
ISBN-13	978-981-10-0396-7 / 9789811003967
Zustand	Neuware