Encoding Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese: A cognitive functional study: 11 (Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse) - Hardcover

Lin, Jingxia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027202141 ISBN 13: 9789027202147

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2019

Synopsis

This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal motion morphemes is closely associated with the meanings they lexicalize. The book is not only the first work that proposes a finer-grained classification and diagnostics of Chinese motion morphemes from the perspective of scale structure, but also the first to more comprehensively account for the ordering of Chinese motion morphemes. The findings of this study will not only enrich the literature on motion events, but more importantly, further our understanding of the nature of motion events and the way motion events are conceived and represented in the Chinese language. The major proposals and the cognitive functional approach of this work will also shed light on studies beyond motion. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars interested in motion events, syntax-semantic interface, and typology.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027202141
• ISBN 13: 9789027202147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 227