{"product_id":"the-historical-morpho-syntax-of-chinese-9789819604869","title":"The Historical Morpho-Syntax of Chinese","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Yuzhi Shi | Xiqin Liu | Shuneng Zhong\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical \u0026amp; Comparative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction.- The development of copular markers.- Special word order of interrogative pronouns, negative marker.- From interrogative pronouns to exclamation, focus, and negative.- Latest development of question constructions.- Emergence of verb plus resultative' construction.- The effect of disyllabification on grammar.- Frequency and grammatical changes.- Semantic suitability for grammaticalization.- Contexts for grammatical changes.- Emergence of aspect markers.- From possessive verbs to perfective marker.- Systematic changes of negative markers.- Emergence of verb reduplication.- Boundedness of predicate.- New information-organizing principle.- Emergence of verb-copying construction.- Emergence of scalar construction.- Change of comparative construction.- Morphology of adjectives and adverbs.- Lexical sources for passives.- Structural changes of passives.- Emergence of disposal construction.- Competition between disposal markers.- Change of relative clauses.- Emergence of nominal classifiers.- Emergence of verbal classifiers.- Grammaticalization of constructional particle.- Emergence of plural marker.- Developments of diminutive marker.- Verbal conceptualization and grammaticalization.- Unbalanced developments in dialects.- Word order and language development.- Language contacts and change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47595296293015,"sku":"9789819604869","price":10408.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789819604869.webp?v=1774989209","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-historical-morpho-syntax-of-chinese-9789819604869","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}