Functional structure(s), form, and interpretation : perspectives from East Asian languages /

Functional structure(s), form, and interpretation : perspectives from East Asian languages / Perspectives from East Asian languages edited by Yen-hui Audrey Li and Andrew Simpson. - 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) - RoutledgeCurzon Asian linguistics series . - RoutledgeCurzon Asian linguistics series. .

Includes bibliographical references.

part PART I in the DP/NP chapter 1 NP as argument chapter 2 Copying variables chapter 3 Classi?ers and the count/mass distinction chapter 4 The demonstratives in modern Japanese part PART II of functional structure chapter 5 On the Re-Analysis of nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean chapter 6 Three types of existential quantification in Chinese chapter 7 On the history of place words and localizers in Chinese: A cognitive approach chapter PART III principles of organization chapter 8 Judgments, point of view and the interpretation of causee noun phrases chapter 9 A computational approach to case and word order in Korean chapter 10 Adjuncts and word order typology in east asian languages chapter 11 The distribution of negative NPS and some typological correlates.

9780203987667 9781134431335 9781134431373 9781134431380

10.4324/9780203987667 doi


Linguistics--East Asia.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.


East Asia--Languages--Grammar.

PL493 / .F86 2003

495 / F979