Shanghai International Studies University,Shanghai, China
关键词:
grammaticalization path; case type; ergative–absolutive language; subject–object language
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摘要:
This paper investigates the grammaticalization of English and
Chinese attributive possession including its path, mechanism, and motivation.
The major purposes of this investigation are to explain and analyze the
similarities and differences of English and Chinese attributive possession from
a typological perspective. At the same time, it also aims to find out the
typological features of grammaticalization of English and Chinese attributive
possession. According to the correlation between English and Chinese
attributive possession and case types, it concludes that Chinese is a typical
target language remixed ergative–absolutive and subject–object while English
is a typical subject–object language.