TY  - CHAP
A1  - LaPolla, Randy J.
A2  - Downing, Pamela
A2  - Noonan, Michael
T1  - Pragmatic relations and word order in Chinese
T2  - Word Order in Discourse
N2  - In LaPolla 1990, I presented arguments to show that Chinese is a language in which there has been no grammaticalizalion of the syntactic relations "subject" and "object". This being the case, then syntactic relations cannot be what determines word order in Chinese. In this paper I will argue that, aside from a semantic rule that the actor of a verb, if expressed, must precede that verb, it is pragmatic relations (information structure) that are the main determinants of word order in Chinese.
KW  - Chinesisch
KW  - Wortstellung
KW  - Pragmatik
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37872
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-378728
UR  - http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/randylapolla/papers/LaPolla_1995_Pragmatic_Relations_and_Word_Order_in_Chinese.pdf
SN  - 1-55619-424-2
SN  - 90-272-2921-X
SP  - 297
EP  - 329
PB  - Benjamins
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
ER  -