Publications

Publication details [#29649]

Myhill, John and Zhiqun Xing. 1993. The discourse functions of Patient fronting: A comparative study of biblical Hebrew and Chinese. Linguistics 31 (1) : 25–57.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | patient | variability | verb | word order

Language as a subject

Chinese | Hebrew, Biblical

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This study in word order variation, compares factors affecting verb and Patient order in Biblical Hebrew and Chinese, two genetically unrelated languages.