Flexibility in the Parts-of-Speech System of Classical Chinese

Based on empirical data from five classical texts, this study investigates flexibility of parts of speech in Classical Chinese. The findings suggest that flexibility in a parts-of-speech system can only be fully understood by integrating a wide range of aspects. The components needed to account for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sun, Linlin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 334
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background for studying flexibility in parts-of-speech systems
  • 3. Syntactic observations on flexibility in Classical Chinese
  • 4. Cognitive-semantic foundations of flexibility in Classical Chinese
  • 5. Pragmatics of flexibility in Classical Chinese: The level of argument structure constructions
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix I
  • Appendix II
  • Index