TY  - BOOK
AU  - Teruhiro Ishiguro
AU  - Kang Kwong Luke
PY  - 2013
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1424-8689
SN  - 9783035105766
TI  - Grammar in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
T2  - The Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Japanese and Chinese
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0576-6
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043749
N2  - In this collection of papers on syntax, semantics and pragmatics, linguists specialising in the study of Japanese and Chinese offer fresh ideas and insights on the theme of grammatical categories and structure from a comparative perspective. Against the background of theoretical developments in recent years and individual studies of Japanese, Chinese and English grammar, the papers in this volume are devoted to new in-depth treatments of distinctive aspects of Chinese and Japanese grammar informed by influential theoretical frameworks of the day, including cognitive grammar, construction grammar, information structure, grammaticalization theory, and linguistic typology. Topics of investigation include compounding, verb complementation, tense and aspect, as well as a range of word order phenomena, such as passive constructions, focus-fronting, and right dislocation.
KW  - Comparative Linguistics, Syntax, Pragmatics, Grammar theory, Semantics
LA  - English
ER  -