This paper addresses the emergence and development of the Chinese cleft construction,
with particular attention to the period from Early Archaic Chinese through Late Medieval …

Our understanding of nonverbal predication wherein canonically non-verbal phrases such
as nouns and adjectives are predicated in American Sign Language (ASL) is fragmentary …

Chhitkul-Rākchham is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Bodic branch spoken in Northern
India. Evidentiality is expressed by means of a range of morphosyntactic devices: copulas …

Languages across the world differ from each other in a number of respects, and one such
difference is in terms of how their lexicons are categorized. Compared to most European …

Modern Chinese confirmative shi (as in mei cuo, wo shi yao dusi ni (沒錯, 我 是
要毒死你)'that's right. I really wanted to poison you to death') is not an auxiliary but an …

This paper investigates the development of the copula shì construction in Chinese from the
perspective of diachronic construction grammar. In prior work the development has been …

本文以汉语“是” 为例, 通过跨语言对比, 详细考察了系词的语法化路径. 研究发现,
相应语法化过程由形容词性用法开始, 经过动词, 代词等用法过渡到语义为空但功能却更为专有 …

In this thesis I investigate the preverbal positioning of wh and non-wh-phrases in Late
Archaic Chinese (LAC) and the Intervention Effect (Beck 1996a). I first explore non-wh …

Un'opera fondamentale dedicata allo studio della lingua cinese colta risalente al periodo
fondativo della cultura cinese (VI-II sec. aC) e imprescindibile per conoscere una tra le piu …

概要本文首先批判性分析了Declerck (1988) 和西山(2003) 在英语和日语系词句方面的分类,
并在阐述先行研究中存在的问题后, 提出了本文对汉语系词句的四种基本分类:“変量値指定句“,“ …