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The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar

The formation of the resultative construction and its effects

By: Yuzhi Shi

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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 integrity, and (d) frequency of co-occurence of a pair of verb and resultative. The author also addresses a series of grammatical changes and innovations caused by the formation of this resultative construction, such as the development of aspect, mood, verb reduplication, the new predicate structure, the disposal construction, the passive construction, the verb copying construction, and the new topicalization construction, all of which together shape the grammatical system of Modern Chinese. The present analysis raises and discusses a number of theoretical issues that are meaningful to various linguistic disciplines like pragmatics, discourse analysis, grammaticalization, and general historical linguistics.

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278

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027283036

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9789027283030

The Evolution of Chinese Grammar

By: Yuzhi Shi

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The Evolution of Chinese Grammar

By: Yuzhi Shi

The Chinese language has the longest well-documented history among all human languages, making it an invaluable resource for studying how languages develop and change through time. Based on a twenty-year long research project, this pioneering book is the English version of an award-winning study originally published in Chinese. It provides an evolutionary perspective on the history of Chinese grammar, tracing its development from its thirteenth-Century BC origins to the present day. It investigates all the major changes in the history of the language within contemporary linguistic frameworks, and illustrates these with a wide range of examples taken from every stage in the language's development, showing how the author's findings are relevant to contemporary descriptive, theoretical, and historical linguistics. Shedding light on the essential properties of Chinese and, ultimately, language in general, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students of Asian linguistics, historical linguistics and syntactic theory.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108924301

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9781108924306

A Study of the Urban Poetics of Frank O’Hara

By: Wang Xiaoling,Wang Yuzhi,Zheng Mingyuan

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A Study of the Urban Poetics of Frank O’Hara

By: Wang Xiaoling,Wang Yuzhi,Zheng Mingyuan

Focusing on the poetry and cultural practice of Frank O’Hara, the great urban poet of the New York School during the 1950s and 1960s, this books explores the interwoven relationship between his urban poetics and the urban culture of New York, seeking to shed light on poetic concept and its cultural relevance. The poetry of Frank O’Hara is deeply rooted in and nourished by his urban experience as a metropolitan and an active participant in the vibrant cultural scene of New York. Therefore, an investigation into the interactive dynamics between his poetry and the urban culture he helped shape serves as a starting point for further study on the literary representation of European and American urban culture. Across eight chapters, the authors look into the genesis, theoretical constitution, the interface with culture and aesthetics of O’Hara’s urban poetics and also their philosophical foundations, literary ethics, special expression and representation as well as his reception of modernity and postmodernity. The title will appeal to scholars, students and general readers interested in American literature, poetry and urban culture, especially Frank O’Hara and the New York School.

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Routledge

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1000588750

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9781000588750

Book's by Yuzhi Shi

The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar

The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar

The Evolution of Chinese Grammar

The Evolution of Chinese Grammar

A Study of the Urban Poetics of Frank O’Hara

A Study of the Urban Poetics of Frank O’Hara

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