The goal of this pioneering work is to make available to Chinese linguists, as well as linguists in general, the results of the most recent research - not only

This book investigates historical motivations for the emergence of the resultative construction in Chinese from the following four aspects: (a) disyllabificatio

Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese illuminates how studies of language development and change provide special insights into the understanding of

The Chinese language has the longest well-documented history among all human languages, making it an invaluable resource for studying how languages develop and

The basic idea behind this volume is to probe the nature of grammaticalization. Its contributions focus on the following questions: (i) In how far can grammatic