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    Cartography of Chinese Syntax

Cartography of Chinese Syntax

Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
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      This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that is guided by the view that syntactic structures contain grammatical and functional information that is ideal for semantic interpretation - by studying the syntactic structures of a particular language, syntacticians can better understand the semantic issues atplay in that language. The chapters in this book map out the "topography" of a variety of constructions in Chinese, specifically information structure, wh-question formation, and peripheral functional elements. The syntactic structure of Chinese makes it an ideal language for this line of research,because functional elements are often spread throughout sentences rather than clumped together as is usually dictated by language-specific morphology. Mapping Chinese syntactic structures therefore offers a window into the origin of heavily "scrambled" constructions often observed in other languages. The book includes a preface that will discusses the goal of cartography and explains how the collection contributes towards our understanding of this approach to syntax. The subsequent sevenoriginal articles all contain original syntactic data that is invaluable for future research in cartography, and the collection as a whole paints a broader picture of how the alignment between syntax and semantics works in a principled way.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai EAN: 9780190210687 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 506 g HEIGHT: 238 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-08-20 CITY: GENRE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Chinese WIDTH: 163 cm SPINE:

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      Chinese, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology

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      Dylan Tsai is a Professor of Linguistics at the National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan.
      This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that is guided by the view that syntactic structures contain grammatical and functional information that is ideal for semantic interpretation - by studying the syntactic structures of a particular language, syntacticians can better understand the semantic issues atplay in that language. The chapters in this book map out the "topography" of a variety of constructions in Chinese, specifically information structure, wh-question formation, and peripheral functional elements. The syntactic structure of Chinese makes it an ideal language for this line of research,because functional elements are often spread throughout sentences rather than clumped together as is usually dictated by language-specific morphology. Mapping Chinese syntactic structures therefore offers a window into the origin of heavily "scrambled" constructions often observed in other languages. The book includes a preface that will discusses the goal of cartography and explains how the collection contributes towards our understanding of this approach to syntax. The subsequent sevenoriginal articles all contain original syntactic data that is invaluable for future research in cartography, and the collection as a whole paints a broader picture of how the alignment between syntax and semantics works in a principled way.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai EAN: 9780190210687 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 506 g HEIGHT: 238 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-08-20 CITY: GENRE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Chinese WIDTH: 163 cm SPINE:

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      Chinese, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology

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      Dylan Tsai is a Professor of Linguistics at the National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan.

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