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The early history of the Chinese passive.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The early history of the Chinese passive./
Author:	Wu, Yuemei.
Description:	324 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Chaofen Sun.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-09A.
Subject:	Language, Ancient. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3281980
ISBN:	9780549245124

The early history of the Chinese passive.
Wu, Yuemei.

The early history of the Chinese passive. - 324 p.

Adviser: Chaofen Sun.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2007.

The primary goal of this research is to provide a comprehensive study on the development of the Chinese passive from the oracle bone inscriptions to the end of Middle Chinese (approximately 14th c. BC--12 th c. AD). The second goal is to combine the diachronic perspective with the synchronic point of view to provide historical explanations for the synchronic connections among the various passive and passive-related constructions in Modern Chinese. The final goal is to compare the Chinese passive with other world languages and to contribute to a better understanding of the passive cross-linguistically.

ISBN: 9780549245124Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018100
Language, Ancient.

The early history of the Chinese passive.
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520 $a The primary goal of this research is to provide a comprehensive study on the development of the Chinese passive from the oracle bone inscriptions to the end of Middle Chinese (approximately 14th c. BC--12 th c. AD). The second goal is to combine the diachronic perspective with the synchronic point of view to provide historical explanations for the synchronic connections among the various passive and passive-related constructions in Modern Chinese. The final goal is to compare the Chinese passive with other world languages and to contribute to a better understanding of the passive cross-linguistically.
520 $a Most previous studies on the history of the Chinese passive tend to take one of two extreme views. Ma, in his pioneer work on the Chinese passive in 1898, defines the passive as the 'patient appearing in the subject position' without clearly defining the notion of the 'subject' and even includes the Chinese tough construction in the passive. Taking the opposite approach, most recent studies restrict the passive as structures with an overt syntactic marker and neglect the morphological and functional passives.
520 $a This study is intended to find clarity between these two extreme views. It first hypothesizes that the Chinese passive was originally expressed morphologically. The morphological passive lost its marker due to phonetic attrition and consequently became the functional passive. In the meantime, three syntactically marked periphrastic WEI, JIAN and BEI constructions also came into use to renew the passive meaning. These passive markers were all grammaticalized from autonomous verbs. The Chinese tough construction is not a passive, but a kind of topicalization in which a non-agent argument is fronted to serve as the topic of the sentence.
520 $a The result of this diachronic study also explains the synchronic differences between the short and long BEI passives, the connections of passivization with relativization and topicalization, and the existence of the functional, non-gapped and adversative passives in Modern Chinese. Furthermore, it shows that the Chinese passive represents a more prototypical instance of the passive among world languages where the thematic hierarchy is reflected in the grammatical relations in the basic sentence structure.
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