The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar: The Formation of the Resultative Construction and Its Effects

by Yuzhi Shi

This book investigates historical motivations for the emergence of the resultative construction in Chinese from the following four aspects: (a) disyllabification, (b)adjacent context, (c) semantic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588112039
• ISBN13: 9781588112033
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 276 Pages