Yuan Yulin. Cognition-Based Studies on Chinese Grammar

Routledge, 2016. — 284 pages. — (Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics). — ISBN: 978-1-315-75791-9.Introducing the English translations of 8 selected research articles originally written in Chinese by Professor Yuan Yulin, Cognition-based Studies on Chinese Grammar is an essential reading for researchers in Chinese syntax.Introducing the English translation of eight selected research articles originally written in Chinese by Professor Yulin Yuan, Cognition-Based Studies on Chinese Grammaris essential reading for researchers in Chinese syntax.Yulin Yuan is one of the very first Chinese scholars who introduced cognitive sciences into the study of Chinese language some twenty years ago, and his work is well-known and highly regarded in China for its originality and theoretical contribution. The collection covers the core of his engagement with Chinese language studies, ranging from lexical exploration to grammatical discussion.Cognition-Based Studies on Chinese Grammaris designed for students or researchers who specialise in the Chinese language, contemporary Chinese grammar and cognitive linguistics. It can also serve as a reference book for instructors or teachers engaged in Chinese language pedagogy or in teaching Chinese as a second or foreign language.Nominal valency in Mandarin Chinese
The di-valent noun
The mono-valent noun
Referential rules
The implicit predicate and its syntactic consequence
Nominal representation of verb phrases and the fluctuation of pronominal reference
Topic and topicalisation
The Chinese topic structure
Grammatical significance of Chinese topics and their degrees of grammaticalisation
Word order and lexical co-occurrence: A cognitive explanation
The order of attributives: A cognitive explanation and its theoretical implications
Container metaphor, set metaphor and the image schema