The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar: The formation of the resultative construction and its effects
Yuzhi Shi
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 59] 2002. xiv, 262 pp.
Yuzhi Shi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yuzhi Shi plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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2020 Bidirectional transfers of the ditransitive construction in Chinese Cognitive Linguistic Aspects of Information Structure and Flow, Lu, Wei-lun and Jirí Lukl (eds.), pp. 416–439 | Article
The Chinese ditransitive construction expresses the ‘bidirectional’ transfers: the movement of the patient either (a) from the subject to indirect object or (b) from the indirect object to subject, a feature that has not been identified in other languages. This construction is thus different from… read more