Functional structure(s), form, and interpretation : perspectives from East Asian languages /

Functional structure(s), form, and interpretation : perspectives from East Asian languages / Perspectives from East Asian languages edited by Yen-hui Audrey Li and Andrew Simpson. - 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) - RoutledgeCurzon Asian linguistics series . - RoutledgeCurzon Asian linguistics series. .

Includes bibliographical references.

part PART I in the DP/NP -- chapter 1 NP as argument -- chapter 2 Copying variables -- chapter 3 Classi?ers and the count/mass distinction -- chapter 4 The demonstratives in modern Japanese -- part PART II of functional structure -- chapter 5 On the Re-Analysis of nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean -- chapter 6 Three types of existential quantification in Chinese -- chapter 7 On the history of place words and localizers in Chinese: A cognitive approach -- chapter PART III principles of organization -- chapter 8 Judgments, point of view and the interpretation of causee noun phrases -- chapter 9 A computational approach to case and word order in Korean -- chapter 10 Adjuncts and word order typology in east asian languages -- chapter 11 The distribution of negative NPS and some typological correlates.

9780203987667 9781134431335 9781134431373 9781134431380

10.4324/9780203987667 doi


Linguistics--East Asia.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.


East Asia--Languages--Grammar.

PL493 / .F86 2003

495 / F979