How Subjective Is the Subject? A Fresh Look at Grammatical Relations in Mandarin Chinese

Autor:	Anna Morbiato
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Linguistics and Language Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations Religious studies Subject (philosophy) Psychology Cognitive psychology
Zdroj:	54 | 2018.
ISSN:	2385-3042 1125-3789
Popis:	This article re-examines the issue of grammatical relations in Mandarin Chinese in light of the results of recent large-scale typological research on grammatical relations (henceforth GRs) worldwide. Specifically, it discusses three syntactic operations and constructions that are cross-linguistically relevant to the definition of grammatical relations, namely relativisation, reflexivisation, and quantifier float. The study adopts a strictly language-internal typological approach and avails itself of natural linguistic data or sentences sanity-checked by native speakers. The aim of this paper is twofold: first, it explores the hypothesis that, in line with various other languages, GRs in Mandarin Chinese are construction-specific. Second, it proposes an alternative approach capable of explaining the conflicting evidence often pointed out in the literature on GRs and subjecthood in Mandarin Chinese.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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