Diachronic Changes Underlying Synchronic Distribution

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Diachronic Changes Underlying Synchronic Distribution is written by I-Hsuan Chen and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9811301700 (ISBN 10) and 9789811301704 (ISBN 13).

This book deals with synchronic variation in Chinese through a diachronic lens, based on the evidence from a quantitative, longitudinal corpus study. Departing from the traditional analysis in diachronic changes in Chinese linguistics, the cognitive constructionist approach employed in this book is able to capture incremental changes by combining syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Topics such as word order, focus, scopes of quantifiers, information structure, and negation have been important issues in linguistics, but they are rarely integrated as a whole. The book makes their diachronic interactions available to the students and researchers in the fields of general and Chinese linguistics.