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4. Postpositions: Double trouble

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New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax
This chapter is in the book New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents IX
  3. 1. Introduction: What linguists have always wanted to know about Chinese… 1
  4. 2. SVO forever! 7
  5. 3. Prepositions as adpositions, not V/P hybrids 53
  6. 4. Postpositions: Double trouble 93
  7. 5. Adjectives: Another neglected category – which turns out to be two 139
  8. 6. The syntax and semantics of the sentence periphery (part I): What the topic is (not) about 193
  9. 7. The syntax and semantics of the sentence periphery (part II): Why particles are not particular 249
  10. 8. Chinese from a typological point of view: Long live disharmony! 301
  11. References 335
  12. Subject index 355
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110338775.93

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents IX
  3. 1. Introduction: What linguists have always wanted to know about Chinese… 1
  4. 2. SVO forever! 7
  5. 3. Prepositions as adpositions, not V/P hybrids 53
  6. 4. Postpositions: Double trouble 93
  7. 5. Adjectives: Another neglected category – which turns out to be two 139
  8. 6. The syntax and semantics of the sentence periphery (part I): What the topic is (not) about 193
  9. 7. The syntax and semantics of the sentence periphery (part II): Why particles are not particular 249
  10. 8. Chinese from a typological point of view: Long live disharmony! 301
  11. References 335
  12. Subject index 355
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