Grammaticalization and language change in Chinese : a formal view /
Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu.
- 1 online resource (ix, 325 pages)
- RoutledgeCurzon Asian linguistics series .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-319) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. The classifier ge : movement and reanalysis -- 3. Relative clause de : directionality, clausal raising and sentence-final particles -- 4. De in focus sentences : from d to t -- 5. Resultative constructions : directionality and reanalysis -- 6. Verbal le : aspect and tense -- 7. Post-word.