Functional structure(s), form, and interpretation perspectives from East Asian languages

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Simpson, Andrew (auth), Li, Yen-hui Audrey, 1954- (-), Simpson, Andrew, 1962-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Taylor & Francis 2003
2003.
Colección:RoutledgeCurzon Asian linguistics series.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009434667506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 NP as argument; 2 Copying variables; 3 Classifiers and the count/mass distinction; 4 The demonstratives in modern Japanese; 5 On the Re-Analysis of nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; 6 Three types of Existential quantification in Chinese; 7 On the history of place words and localizers in Chinese: A cognitive approach; 8 Judgments, point of view and the interpretation of causee noun phrases; 9 A computational approach to case and word order in Korean
  • 10 Adjuncts and word order typology in east asian languages11 The distribution of negative NPS and some typological correlates