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7 - Revisiting the Controversial Chinese Constructions with Non-finiteness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2022

Bingjun Yang
Bingjun Yang
Affiliation:
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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Summary

It is pervasive today in studies of the Chinese language for spoken instances to be used to support both spoken and written grammars. As made clear in Chapter 3, spoken and written languages require different grammars. Based on the process relations, controversial constructions in written Chinese are analysed in Chapter 7. These constructions include the following in which non-finiteness plays an indispensable role: serial verb construction, the so-called pivotal construction, existential construction, and other controversial constructions. In Chapters 6 and 7, the controversial issues of non-finiteness in English and Chinese are dealt with from the process-relation perspective and new findings are presented. Thus, the answer to the fourth research question is given.

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serial verb constructionpivotal constructionexistential constructioncontroversial non-finite constructionsChinese
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Non-Finiteness
A Process-Relation Perspective
 , pp. 163 - 194
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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