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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765819103321

Autore

Simpson Andrew

Titolo

Functional structure(s), form, and interpretation : perspectives from East Asian languages / / edited by Yen-hui Audrey Li and Andrew Simpson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2003

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-43137-6

1-134-43138-4

1-280-34816-X

9786610348169

0-203-98766-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

RoutledgeCurzon Asian linguistics series

Classificazione

18.90

Altri autori (Persone)

LiYen-hui Audrey <1954->

SimpsonAndrew <1962->

Disciplina

495

Soggetti

Linguistics - East Asia

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

East Asia Languages Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Book cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 NP as argument; 2 Copying variables; 3 Classifiers and the count/mass distinction; 4 The demonstratives in modern Japanese; 5 On the Re-Analysis of nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; 6 Three types of Existential quantification in Chinese; 7 On the history of place words and localizers in Chinese: A cognitive approach; 8 Judgments, point of view and the interpretation of causee noun phrases; 9 A computational approach to case and word order in Korean

10 Adjuncts and word order typology in east asian languages11 The distribution of negative NPS and some typological correlates

Sommario/riassunto

The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and



hotly debated in both theoretical and descriptive linguistics.This volume brings together a series of eleven new cutting-edge essays by leading experts in East Asian languages which shows how the study of formal structures and functional morphemes in Chinese, Japanese and Korean adds much to our general understanding of the close connections between form and interpretation. This specially commissioned collection will be of interest to linguists of all backg