Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation: Perspectives from East Asian Languages (Curzon Asian Linguistics)

Book cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series-Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Part I Functional Structure and Processes of Interpretation in the DP/NP......Page 14
1 NP as argument......Page 16
2 Copying variables......Page 41
3 Classifiers and the count/mass distinction......Page 78
4 The demonstratives in modern Japanese......Page 110
Part II Grammaticalization and the diachronic development of functional structure......Page 142
5 On the Re-Analysis of nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean......Page 144
6 Three types of Existential quantification in Chinese......Page 174
7 On the history of place words and localizers in Chinese: A cognitive approach......Page 193
Part III Clause level structures: Processes of interpretation and principles of organization......Page 212
8 Judgments, point of view and the interpretation of causee noun phrases......Page 214
9 A computational approach to case and word order in Korean......Page 235
10 Adjuncts and word order typology in east asian languages......Page 254
11 The distribution of negative NPS and some typological correlates......Page 275