Chinese Grammar at Work

Name: Chinese Grammar at Work
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Shuanfan Huang(Autor*in)

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Erschienen am 18. Dezember 2013

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Chinese Grammar at Work
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Glossing conventions
Transcription conventions
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 The empirical turn
1.2 Some findings from working with naturally occurring data
1.2.1 Syntax of the word of
1.2.2 Raising construction
1.2.3 Constancy of percentage of nouns
1.2.4 Emergence of epistemic formulae
1.2.5 Left dislocation
1.2.6 Syntax of adjectives
1.2.7 Classifiers
1.2.8 Adverbial clauses
1.3 Discourse pragmatics in the shaping of syntax
1.4 Database
1.5 Organization of the book
Chapter 2. The dynamics of the clausal structure
2.1 Introduction
2.2 An illustration
2.3 Types of IUs
2.4 Clause fragments
2.5 Attached and unattached NP IUs
2.6 Topic hierarchy
2.7 Connectives linking IUs
2.8 Connectives and prosody
2.9 Pause markers and language production
2.10 Sources of messy syntax
2.11 Interactional and cognitive motivations
2.12 Conclusion
Note
Chapter 3. Constituency and patterns of syntactic contiguity
3.1 Sequential contiguity and constituent relation
3.2 Prosodic grouping
3.3 Emergent structural units
3.4 Locally contingent categories
3.5 Extensions
3.6 Repair and constituency
3.7 Conclusion
Note
Chapter 4. Pragmatics of word order
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Database
4.3 Methodology
4.4 Basic word order
4.5 Valency role orders
4.6 Word order and information statuses of NPs
4.7 Word order, identifiability and generality
4.8 Topicality hierarchy
4.9 "Subject"-like properties of NPs in clause-initial position
4.10 Indeterminacy in the semantics and syntax of non-canonical constructions
4.11 Discussion and conclusion
Notes
Chapter 5. Referring expressions
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Cognitive statuses and referring expressions in Mandarin
5.2.1 Givenness hierarchy
5.2.2 The indefinite yi N
5.2.3 The emergence of the definite article in Mandarin
5.2.4 Uses of demonstrative determiners in Conversation
5.2.5 Summary
5.3 Referring expressions and the accessibility scale
5.3.1 Database
5.3.2 Accessibility and referential distance
5.3.3 Accessibility and competition
5.3.4 Accessibility and saliency
5.3.5 Summary
5.4 Degrees of accessibility: Finer distinctions
5.4.1 High accessibility markers: ZA and pronoun
5.4.2 Medium accessibility markers: Determinate NPs
5.4.3 Low accessibility markers
5.5 Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 6. Classifiers and classifier constructions
6.1 Introduction
6.2 What classifers are
6.3 Types of numeral classifiers
6.4 Abstract nouns and an incipient mass/count distinction
6.5 Cognitive explanation
6.6 Affordance and blending classifiers: beyond sortal and mensural
6.7 Verbal classifiers
6.8 Classifier constructions
6.9 Some observations on the historical evolution of numeral classifiers
6.10 Conclusion
Note
Chapter 7. Noun-modifying constructions
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Multiple functions of de
7.3 Relativization strategies
7.4 The standard analysis of relative clause and its problems
7.5 Minor relativization strategy and other unusual relativization features
7.6 Absence of de in a clause
7.7 The absolutive hypothesis
7.8 Constituent structure of the relative clause
7.9 Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 8. Complementation constructions
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Methodology and database
8.3 Results
8.3.1 Matrix verb types
8.3.2 Mental verbs and verbs of saying
8.3.3 juede
8.3.4 kan
8.3.5 zhidao
8.3.6 xiang as the canonical mental predicate
8.4 Social action and complementation
8.5 Interim summary
8.6 Complementation and construction network
8.7 Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 9. Some more constructions in Chinese
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The presentative construction
9.3 The gei constructions
9.3.1 Stability and variability in the gei construction
9.3.2 Various grammaticization paths of the verb gei
9.4 Dative constructions and Dative-like markers: gen, dui, bang
9.5 The ethnotheory of the person and emotion constructions
9.6 The shi...de construction
9.7 Fluidity of transitivity
9.7.1 Accommodation construction
9.7.2 The middle construction
9.8 Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 10. The left and right peripheries in the clause and sequence structure
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Sequential nature of linguistic expressions
10.3 An illustration
10.4 Discourse functions of bo
10.5 Sequentially sensitive nature of the discourse marker bo
10.5.1 Grammaticalization chains for bo
10.6 Turn-final discourse markers
10.7 Turn-initial vs. turn-final particles
10.7.1 Final particles in Taiwanese
10.7.2 Particle clusters
10.7.3 Final particles and subjectivity
10.8 Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 11. Projection and repair
11.1 The predictive mind
11.2 Types of projection
11.2.1 Resources for projection
11.2.2 Shenme as a placeholder
11.2.3 The projective construction
11.3 Pre's
11.4 Repair
11.4.1 Repair in verb-initial languages
11.4.2 Repair in Mandarin
11.4.3 Repair patterns
11.5 Conclusion
Chapter 12. Grammar, construction and social action
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Constructions in mandarin conversation
12.3 The qishi construction
12.3.1 Schematic representations of the qishi construction
12.3.2 Variation on the qishi schema
12.4 Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 13. Meaning in interaction
13.1 Posing the problem
13.2 Meaning negotiation
13.3 Natural kind terms
13.4 Nominal kind terms
13.5 Meaning and belief
13.6 Meaning adaptation
13.7 Conclusion
Chapter 14. Language, cognition and the complexity turn in grammatical research
14.1 Language in its natural habitat
14.2 Language and situated cognition
14.3 Language and embodied cognition
14.4 Mirror neuron system and the foundation of language
14.5 How language use shapes grammar
14.6 Emergence of language structure
14.7 Language as a pastiche of subregularities
14.8 Language as a complex adaptive system
14.9 Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Index

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