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

• Autore: Simpson Andrew
• Pubblicazione: Taylor & Francis, 2003; London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 495
• Soggetto topico: Linguistics - East Asia; Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
• Soggetto geografico: East Asia Languages Grammar
• Soggetto non controllato: east; asian; languages; noun; phrase; relative; clause; donkey; anaphora; measure
• Classificazione: 18.90
• Altri autori: LiYen-hui Audrey <1954-> SimpsonAndrew <1962->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Functional structure(s), form, and interpretation
• ISBN: 1-134-43137-6; 1-134-43138-4; 1-280-34816-X; 9786610348169; 0-203-98766-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910765819103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: RoutledgeCurzon Asian linguistics series.