Syntax-Semantics Mismatches in Mandarin Chinese
Syntax-Semantics Mismatches in Mandarin Chinese
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Author(s): Zhuang, Huibin
ISBN No.: 9789819537785
Pages: xx, 300
Year: 202603
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 203.65
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

This book serves as accessible reference work on Chinese grammar with a attributive function focus. It explores the nature of fake attributives. Four types of fake attributive are discussed: (1) subject-originated attributives, that is, fake possessives caused by the V-DE Constraint on Object (VDCO) and V-V Compound Constraint on Object (VVCO), (2) object-originated attributives, namely, fake possessives caused by the VO Complex Verb Constraint on Object (VOCO), (3) fake nominal quantifiers, and (4) adverbial-originated attributives. It is found that most derivation of fake attributives is triggered within the module of syntax, although historically some variants have been formed by the influence of prosodic constraints.


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