Historical Examination of Modern Chinese Grammar

Author: Cui Shanjia
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book is divided into sixteen chapters, each focusing on a specific topic, as it was originally a collection of individual papers that were later compiled into this format.
Chapter 1 to Chapter 4 are about verb reduplication.
Chapter 2 discusses the issue of verb reduplication with objects, presenting the author's own perspectives on some existing views. This chapter provides over 20 examples from the modern Chinese period to prove that verb reduplication had already existed.
Chapter 3 addresses the use of "V-V" with "kàn" (look) and "VV" with "qiáo" (glance) to express attempts, offering differing views and supplements to some scholars' claims.
Chapter 4 explores certain aspects of disyllabic verb reduplication, which has been mentioned by some scholars but not thoroughly analyzed. This chapter provides a more in-depth investigation and analysis.
Chapter 5 offers supplementary and comparative analyses of the "X X" format from four perspectives, based on two scholars' articles, demonstrating that their claims were either inaccurate or incomplete.
Chapter 6 provides supplements or analyses of three formats: "VO guò," "V dé O guò," and "V dé O zháo." While "VO guò" has been noted by other scholars, "V dé O guò" and "V dé O zháo" appear to have been rarely discussed.
Chapter 7 examines compound verb sentences. Existing studies on compound verb sentences have been explored from a diachronic perspective, with some formats proposed by the author, such as "VOV dào."
Chapter 8 discusses special alternative questions in modern Chinese.
Chapter 9 compares the formats "X zì X" and "X shì X," with a focus on the parallel structures of "X zì X."
Chapter 10 investigates the origins of special sentence patterns.
Chapter 11 analyzes the "A1 ya A2 de" format, which, in modern Chinese, has richer content and grammatical functions compared to its usage in modern Chinese.
Chapter 12 explores the issue of adverbs like "jué" (determined) and "duàn" (decide) taking the judgment particle "shì." Modern Chinese generally considers such adverbs to be inadmissible with "shì," but no examples can be found in modern Chinese.
Chapter 13 discusses approximate number expressions.
Chapter 14 examines how some dialectal sentence structures can be traced back to modern Chinese.
Chapter 15 analyzes foreign-influenced sentence structures.
Chapter 16 consists of grammatical notes published in The Chinese Language, Chinese Language Learning, and The Weekly Report of Linguistics and Characters.