33.1793, Books: Non-Finiteness: Yang

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Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 12:45:45
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Non-Finiteness: Yang

 


Title: Non-Finiteness 
Subtitle: A Process-Relation Perspective 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/non-finiteness-process-relation-perspective?format=HB 


Author: Bingjun Yang

Hardback: ISBN:  9781316513415 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781316513415 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781316513415 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

'Non-finiteness' is a phenomenon that occurs in most natural languages,
whereby a verb is not inflected by grammatical tense, and does not possess the
grammatical features of aspect, mood or voice.  Various theories have been
developed to explain their distribution and their role in clause structure,
but many instances of non-finiteness remain unaccounted for. Taking a
functional approach, this study proposes a 'process relation framework' to
explain the more complex, previously unaccounted for, instances of
non-finiteness in clause structure.  It applies the framework comparatively to
non-finiteness in English and Chinese, showing how it can be applied across
typologically distinct languages. Drawing on corpus-based instances and
observations, it introduces numerous thought-provoking cases, in which
constructional (or combining) types and the predictability of non-finiteness
co-occur. In terms of application, non-finiteness is decisive in categorising
language types, and it is critical in processing natural languages, text
segmentation and annotation in particular.
 



1. Introduction; 2. Non-finiteness in the literature; 3. Theoretical
foundation; 4. Basic process relations as one solution to the controversy; 5.
Non-finiteness as the bridge for process compression; 6. Revisiting the
controversial English constructions with non-finiteness; 7. Revisiting the
controversial Chinese constructions with non-finiteness; 8. Conclusion;
References; Index.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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