Research on Modern Chinese Passive Object Sentences

Author: Zhang Yunqiu
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book extensively employs grammatical research methods such as prototype theory, construction grammar, case grammar, and valence grammar to redefine the connotation of modern Chinese patient-object sentences. On this basis, it conducts a comprehensive and multi-faceted study of the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic features of typical and atypical patient-object sentences, as well as the constraints and order of these three aspects in the formation of various types of patient-object sentences. In the research, it adheres to the principle of combining form and meaning, dynamic and static perspectives, and description and explanation. It focuses on exploring the relationships between different constraint factors in the formation of the overuse phenomenon of Chinese patient markers, concluding that the principle of linguistic economy is the ultimate constraint factor for this phenomenon. Building on previous research, this book significantly expands and innovates the study of patient-object sentences in terms of both breadth and depth.