New Perspectives on Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical Linguistics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Meisterernst, Barbara (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics, 5
• Subjects: Chinese language.; Historical linguistics.; Oriental languages.; Chinese.; Historical Linguistics.; Oriental Languages.

This book presents new perspectives on the study of Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical Linguistics. Based on the international Workshop on Aspect and Modality in Chinese, the book includes the latest research findings in the field to make them available not only to specialists in Classical an...

Table of Contents:

• The Syntax of the Verbs in Archaic Chinese YU Construction
• The Development of the Adverb "QIE 且" in Middle Chinese
• New Insights on the Historical Evolution of the Differential Object Marking in Chinese
• Preliminary Investigation of the Temporal Features of Classical Chinese Verbs
• The History of the Instrumental Nominalization in Chinese
• Some Reflections on the Use and Distribution of Interrogative Pronouns in Medieval Chinese Texts
• Future Meanings, Selection and Volition
• The Diachronic Development of the Aspectual and Modal System of Chinese
• Modality in the General Linguistic Investigations Carried out in China before 1949
• The Modal Verb 應 in Buddhist Vinayas.