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  • 20 - Structural Particles

  • Yuzhi Shi, National University of Singapore
  • Book:
    The Evolution of Chinese Grammar
    Published online:
    16 March 2023
    Print publication:
    23 March 2023, pp 488-510

  • Summary

    This chapter analyses the causal relationship between the establishment of the classifier system and the grammaticalization of the morphosyntactic particle de in the history of the Chinese language. It demonstrates that the grammaticalization of a lexical item is subject to the influence of the overall structural change of a language in a particular time period.

  • 21 - Word Order and Relative Clauses

  • Yuzhi Shi, National University of Singapore
  • Book:
    The Evolution of Chinese Grammar
    Published online:
    16 March 2023
    Print publication:
    23 March 2023, pp 511-543

  • Summary

    This chapter addresses the typological change in relative clauses from postnominal to prenominal position over time. It is also proposed that the constituent order between the relative clause and the head noun is not directly related to the verb and its argument as is generally assumed in the literature but is correlated with the ordering between the VP and PP instead. The diachronic evidence of Chinese shows that the order change of PP from postverbal to preverbal position was the critical motivation for the change in question.