Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics

<p>The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics provides an in-depth exploration of a variety of interface phenomena in Chinese, a non-inflectional language, where to a large extent word order constrains its interpretation and defines its grammatical functions. </p><p>Under the Dynamic Syntax approach, which takes the incremental left-to-right processing of linguistic forms to be a fundamental part of characterizing the relation between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation, a straightforward explanation is provided. The study features detailed analysis of a range of key grammatical constructions such as topic, passive, copular and cleft, where previous analyses were sought in pure syntactic, semantic or pragmatic terms. </p><p>Clear and straightforward throughout, <i>The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics </i>will be of interest to graduate students and scholars of Chinese, linguistics and cognitive science. </p>