Diachronic Changes Underlying Synchronic Distribution Scalar Inferences and Word Order /

• Main Author: Chen, I-Hsuan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in East Asian Linguistics,
• Subjects: Chinese language.; Historical linguistics.; Pragmatics.; Chinese.; Historical Linguistics.

This book deals with synchronic variation in Chinese through a diachronic lens, based on the evidence from a quantitative, longitudinal corpus study. Departing from the traditional analysis in diachronic changes in Chinese linguistics, the cognitive constructionist approach employed in this book is...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Development of 'One'-phrases as Minimizers in Chinese
• The Development of the Polysemous Fixed 'One'-phrase in Mandarin Chinese
• The Emergence of Scalar Particles DOU and YE in OV Order in Mandarin Chinese.-'One'-phrases as Minimizers in Numeral Classifier Languages
• Synchronic Variations: 'One'-phrases as Minimizers in Modern Mandarin Chinese
• Conclusion.