Chinese Middle Constructions: Lexical Middle Formation (Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics)

Jiajuan Xiong

ISBN 10: 9811348219 / ISBN 13: 9789811348211

Editore: Springer 2019-01-04, 2019

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• Titolo: Chinese Middle Constructions: Lexical Middle Formation (Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics)
• Editore: Springer 2019-01-04
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9811348219
• ISBN 13: 9789811348211
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New

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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 .

Informazioni sull?autore

?Dr. Jiajuan Xiong is currently an associate professor at the School of Foreign Languages for Business, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China. Her areas of work include Chinese syntax, Sinhala syntax, synaesthesia and Buddhist philosophy of language. She received the Excellent Ph.D. Thesis award from Hong Kong University.