LFG and Sinitic languages

Olivia S.C. Lam, One Soon Her, Jing Chen, Sophia Y.M. Lee

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Abstract

The assumptions of LFG have been applied to the research on a number of gram¬matical phenomena in Chinese languages. In this chapter, we present an overview of some of the studies devoted to investigating the syntactic patterns of two va¬rieties of Chinese: Mandarin and Cantonese. This chapter includes a discussion on the expression and identification of grammatical functions, ba, bei and related constructions, the dative alternation, compounds (VO compounds and resultative compounds), the locative inversion, and classifiers and measure words. The chap¬ter concludes with a brief overview of the applications of LFG in Chinese language processing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHandbook of Lexical Functional Grammar
EditorsMary Dalrymple
PublisherLanguage Science Press
Chapter35
Pages1703-1751
Number of pages49
ISBN (Electronic)9783961104246
ISBN (Print)9783985540822
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Nov 2023

Publication series

NameEmpirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax
PublisherLanguage Science Press
ISSN (Print)2366-3529

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities
  • General Social Sciences

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