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Publication details [#29707]
Tan, Fu. 1993. Covert category change in isolating languages: The case of modern Chinese. Linguistics 31 (4) : 737–748.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0024-3949
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper demonstrates that in Chinese, the verb in a subject "VP" is nonfinite, the predicate "NPs" are not nominal and that Chinese may be an exception to the rule that categorical or syntactic changes need matching with morphological changes.