Author | : Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0190210699 |
This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. The chapters in this book map out the "topography" of a variety of constructions in Chinese, specifically information structure, wh-question formation, and peripheral functional elements. The syntactic structure of Chinese makes it an ideal language for this line of research, offering a window into the origin of heavily "scrambled" constructions often observed in other languages.