The SOV word order is sometimes found in Classical Chinese, especially when the object is an interrogative pronoun or a pronoun in negative sentences, or even for full lexical NPs when they are followed by pretransitive markers shi or zhi. It has therefore been supposed that these phenomena are relics of an ancient stage of the language and that the regular word order could have been SOV. In the analysis proposed here, no OV order needs to be recognized to capture any generalization in Classical Chinese syntax. The conclusion is that Classical Chinese is a SVO language.L'ordre des mots SOV est attesté en chinois classique lorsque l'objet est un pronom interrogatif ou un pronom dans les phrases négatives, ou même un nom, suivi alors d'un mar...
International audienceThis paper aims to show when and where occurred the syntactic change which led...
International audienceThis paper aims to show when and where occurred the syntactic change which led...
Word order (WO) is one of the most fascinating and investigated topics in Mandarin Chinese (MC) ling...
The SOV word order is sometimes found in Classical Chinese, especially when the object is an interro...
In this paper, the issue of Chinese word order is weighed, and findings in the field are presented. ...
In this paper, the issue of Chinese word order is weighed, and findings in the field are presented. ...
Linguists neglect the SOV structure because they assume that the BA-construction is the only SOV for...
Linguists neglect the SOV structure because they assume that the BA-construction is the only SOV for...
Linguists neglect the SOV structure because they assume that the BA-construction is the only SOV for...
Ce travail de linguistique typologique est consacré à une étude sur l'ordre des constituants en chin...
In LaPolla 1990, I presented arguments to show that Chinese is a language in which there has been no...
This paper addresses the controversial question of whether Old Chinese was an OV or VO language. Evi...
In LaPolla 1990, I presented arguments to show that Chinese is a language in which there has been no...
This paper addresses the controversial question of whether Old Chinese was an OV or VO language. Evi...
This paper aims to show when and where oecured the syntactic change which led from the word order "V...
International audienceThis paper aims to show when and where occurred the syntactic change which led...
International audienceThis paper aims to show when and where occurred the syntactic change which led...
Word order (WO) is one of the most fascinating and investigated topics in Mandarin Chinese (MC) ling...
The SOV word order is sometimes found in Classical Chinese, especially when the object is an interro...
In this paper, the issue of Chinese word order is weighed, and findings in the field are presented. ...
In this paper, the issue of Chinese word order is weighed, and findings in the field are presented. ...
Linguists neglect the SOV structure because they assume that the BA-construction is the only SOV for...
Linguists neglect the SOV structure because they assume that the BA-construction is the only SOV for...
Linguists neglect the SOV structure because they assume that the BA-construction is the only SOV for...
Ce travail de linguistique typologique est consacré à une étude sur l'ordre des constituants en chin...
In LaPolla 1990, I presented arguments to show that Chinese is a language in which there has been no...
This paper addresses the controversial question of whether Old Chinese was an OV or VO language. Evi...
In LaPolla 1990, I presented arguments to show that Chinese is a language in which there has been no...
This paper addresses the controversial question of whether Old Chinese was an OV or VO language. Evi...
This paper aims to show when and where oecured the syntactic change which led from the word order "V...
International audienceThis paper aims to show when and where occurred the syntactic change which led...
International audienceThis paper aims to show when and where occurred the syntactic change which led...
Word order (WO) is one of the most fascinating and investigated topics in Mandarin Chinese (MC) ling...