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Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Syntax, semantics, discourse
Xiaoling He
[
Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse
12] 2019
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Table of contents
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
ix
Major chronological divisions of Chinese history
xi
Chapter 1.
Introduction
1
1.1
Patient-Subject Construction
1
1.1.1
The scope of ‘patient’
1
1.1.2
The syntactic position of patient
3
1.2
The problem of the PSC
4
1.3
The present approach
7
1.4
Organization of the book
9
Chapter 2.
Previous studies of the patient-subject construction
11
2.1
The PSC is an age-old construction in Chinese
11
2.2
General properties of the PSC
13
2.2.1
High text frequency
13
2.2.2
Syntactic properties
14
2.3
Previous studies of the PSC
16
2.3.1
Phonetic marking of the grammatical distinction
16
2.3.2
Lexical approaches
17
2.3.3
Syntactic approaches
22
Chapter 3.
What the PSC is not
33
3.1
PSC is not topicalization
33
3.1.1
Prosodic cues
33
3.1.2
Subjecthood
35
3.1.3
Focus, subordination and nominalization
37
3.2
PSC is not passive
40
3.2.1
Two opposing views
40
3.2.2
Why PSC is not passive
42
3.3
PSC is not an ergative construction
54
3.3.1
Ergativity
54
3.3.2
Ergative structures
55
3.3.3
The PSC is not an ergative construction
56
Chapter 4.
Syntactic and semantic properties of Patient-Subject Constructions
59
4.1
Sub-classifying the PSC
59
4.2
Different kinds of PSC and their semantic properties
61
4.2.1
NP + V + Complement
61
4.2.2
NP + Adverbial + V
62
4.2.3
NP + V +
le
了/
zhe
着/
guo
过
75
4.2.4
NP + V + NP
78
4.2.5
Two special forms
79
4.2.6
Summary
79
4.3
Two challenges for the “inactiveness” account
81
4.3.1
Imperative sentences
81
4.3.2
The problem of
zhengzai
83
4.4
Chapter summary
86
Chapter 5.
‘Inactiveness’ and ‘backgrounding’: PSC in discourse
87
5.1
The polysemy of PSC
87
5.1.1
The PSC as envisioned within event structure
88
5.2
Inactiveness as grammatical construal
91
5.2.1
Construction meaning
92
5.2.2
Relations between constructions
96
5.3
Discourse functions of PSC
98
5.3.1
An empirical study
101
5.4
Chapter summary
108
Chapter 6.
PSC in typological perspective
109
6.1
PSC-like structures in other languages
109
6.1.1
Reflexive constructions
110
6.1.2
Middle constructions
112
6.2
The Chinese PSC as a middle construction
118
6.2.1
Sentence form and meaning
118
6.2.2
The active-middle opposition and its cognitive basis
119
6.3
Unaccusativity and ergativization
120
6.3.1
Unaccusativity
120
6.3.2
Ergativization
123
6.4
Chapter summary
125
Chapter 7.
Summary and conclusion
127
7.1
A new picture of the PSC
127
7.2
Further studies
130
7.2.1
The voice system
130
7.2.2
The
ba
-construction
130
7.2.3
The PSC and the
bei
-construction
131
7.2.4
The classification of construction types in Chinese
133
References
135
Appendix I.
Verbs
145
Appendix II.
Other sources
149
Appendix III.
Dictionary
173
Index
203
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