Patient-subject constructions in Mandarin Chinese syntax, semantics, discourse
"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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2019]
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| Series: | Studies in Chinese language and discourse (SCLD) ;
volume 12, |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Previous studies of the patient-subject construction
- What the PSC is not
- Syntactic and semantic properties of patient-subject constructions
- "Inactiveness" and "backgrounding"
- PSC in typological perspective
- Summary and conclusion.