A Reference Grammar of Chinese A Reference Grammar of Chinese is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the linguistic structure of Chinese, covering all of the important linguistic features of the language and incorporating insights gained from research in Chinese linguistics over the past thirty years. With contributions from twenty-two leading Chinese linguists, this authoritative…
Making Sense of Narrative Text: Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories PDF This e-book takes the following query as its start line: What are some of the essential issues the reader should do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The e-book is a research of the texture…
Resumptivity in Mandarin Chinese: A Minimalist Account PDF This book provides a minimalist account for the derivation of different types of A’-dependencies mediated by gaps and resumptive pronouns in Mandarin Chinese. Adopting a comparative approach, this study not only offers a promising analysis of resumption in Minimalist Program but also improves the general…
The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics PDF Formal semantics – the scientific study of meaning in natural language – is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook offers a comprehensive, yet compact guide to the field, bringing together research from a wide range of world-leading experts. Chapters include…
Case: Its Principles and its Parameters PDF In Case, Mark Baker develops a unified theory of how the morphological case marking of noun phrases is determined by syntactic structure. Designed to work well for languages of all alignment types – accusative, ergative, tripartite, marked nominative, or marked absolutive – this theory has been…