Autorentext

Shen Jiaxuan is Professor of Linguistics at Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His main research interests include contrastive studies between Chinese and English and grammatical theories.

Klappentext

As the second volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book investigates a wide range of linguistic phenomena in Chinese and other languages to substantiate the verbs-as-nouns theory proposed by the author.

Inhalt

1. The problematic status of complements and adverbials 2. Chinese, Tongan, and Latin 3. Shì 'be' and y u 'have/there be' 4. The status and functions of the monosyllabic-disyllabic opposition 5. Markedness reversal and the inclusion pattern 6. Concluding remarks: Destruction and construction in grammatical studies