02318nam 22005055 450 991030056890332120200706072502.0981-10-6187-410.1007/978-981-10-6187-5(CKB)4340000000223644(DE-He213)978-981-10-6187-5(MiAaPQ)EBC5149478(EXLCZ)99434000000022364420171114d2018 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierChinese Middle Constructions Lexical Middle Formation /by Jiajuan Xiong1st ed. 2018.Singapore :Springer Singapore :Imprint: Springer,2018.1 online resource (XXII, 290 p. 1 illus.) Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics,2522-5308 ;2981-10-6186-6 Includes bibliographical references.This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one. This working definition sets “middle construction” apart from “middle voice” in that it can be instantiated by various constructions in Chinese. By scrutinizing these constructions in the framework of Generative Syntax, the book concludes that their formation takes place at the lexical level, without resorting to any syntactic mechanisms and thus that Chinese falls into the category of “lexical middle languages”, which are in contrast to “syntactic middle languages”.Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics,2522-5308 ;2SyntaxChinese languageSyntaxhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/N45000Chinesehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/N18000Syntax.Chinese language.Syntax.Chinese.495.15Xiong Jiajuanauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut861761MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910300568903321Chinese Middle Constructions1923123UNINA