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  • 7 - Revisiting the Controversial Chinese Constructions with Non-finiteness

  • Bingjun Yang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  • Book:
    Non-Finiteness
    Published online:
    21 April 2022
    Print publication:
    28 April 2022, pp 163-194

  • Summary

    It is pervasive today in studies of the Chinese language for spoken instances to be used to support both spoken and written grammars. As made clear in Chapter 3, spoken and written languages require different grammars. Based on the process relations, controversial constructions in written Chinese are analysed in Chapter 7. These constructions include the following in which non-finiteness plays an indispensable role: serial verb construction, the so-called pivotal construction, existential construction, and other controversial constructions. In Chapters 6 and 7, the controversial issues of non-finiteness in English and Chinese are dealt with from the process-relation perspective and new findings are presented. Thus, the answer to the fourth research question is given.