30.2739, Books: Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: He

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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:01:43
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: He

 


Title: Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese 
Subtitle: Syntax, semantics, discourse 
Series Title: Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse 12  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/scld.12 


Author: Xiaoling He

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262349 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262349 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262349 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203403 Pages: 204 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203403 Pages: 204 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203403 Pages: 204 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject
Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood
structures in the language. This book offers a comprehensive account of the
history, structure, meaning and use of the PSC. Unlike previous descriptions
which were framed in terms of pre-existing grammatical notions such as
‘topicalization’, ‘passivization’ and ‘ergativization’, this book offers a
fresh look at the PSC, in which its syntactic and semantic as well as its
discourse functions are examined within the system of major construction-types
of the language as a whole. The PSC, being low in transitivity, serves
primarily the function of backgrounding in discourse. Typologically, the PSC
bears a resemblance to middle constructions in Indo-European and other
languages, raising interesting questions about ways to understand congruent
and divergent syntactic structures across the world’s languages. This book
will be of interest to students of Chinese Linguistics as well as Language
Typology.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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