Author: W. Xian-Fu Yu
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Keywords: supplementa, orbis, reflexives, chinese
Number of Pages: 173
Published: 2001-02-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 9042909382
ISBN-13: 9789042909380

This book presents the Chinese reflexivisation system, investigating the different types of Chinese reflexive constructions and offering an analysis of these, in an attempt to integrate syntactic, morphological and discourse-related aspects of the phenomena. types of reflexive have been widely discussed in the literature: simplex reflexive ziji "self", which is a long-distance reflexive, and complex reflexive pronoun + ziji, such as taziji "himself", which must be locally bound. In addition, Chinese has a kind of double reflexive construction, such as ziji-benshen, and reflexive clitics zi "se

Author: Insa Gulzow
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: acquisition, language, studies, child, german, english, intensifiers, emphatic, reflexives
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $152.00
ISBN-10: 3110185911
ISBN-13: 9783110185911

Insa Gülzow analyzes the acquisition of intensifiers by children acquiring German or English as their first language. Based on a comparative analysis of intensifiers and related expressions in the two languages, she examines the longitudinal production data of six German-speaking and six English-speaking children with regard to when and in which contexts the intensifiers German selbst/selber and English x-self (myself, yourself, himself, etc.) appear. As intensifiers evoke alternatives to the referent of their focus and relate a central referent to more peripheral alternative referents, they

Author: Emma Geniusiene
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Keywords: typology, language, approaches, empirical, ealt, reflexives, ser
Number of Pages: 435
Published: 1987-10-01
List price: $223.00
ISBN-10: 3110106779
ISBN-13: 9783110106770