Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese

A formal view

By Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu

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About the Book

Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese illuminates how studies of language development and change provide special insights into the understanding of current, synchronic systems of language. Using patterns from Chinese, the author establishes cross-linguistic generalizations about language change and grammaticalization.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and overview 2. The classifier ge: movement and reanalysis 3. Relative clause de: directionality, clausal raising and sentence-final particles 4. De in focus sentences: from D to T 5. Resultative constructions: directionality and reanalysis 6. Verbal -le: aspect and tense 7. Post-word Bibliography Index

About the Author(s)

Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu is Lecturer, Chinese Program, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California.