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English and Chinese Attributive Possession: Grammaticalization and Typology
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- Authors: Dan Du and Chunxiang Wu
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Shanghai International Studies University,Shanghai, China
- Keywords: grammaticalization path; case type; ergative–absolutive language; subject–object language
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- Abstract: 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.
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- DOI: https://doi.org/10.35534/LCS201804002
- Cite: Dan Du, Chunxiang Wu．English and Chinese Attributive Possession: Grammaticalization and Typology［J］．Language and Cognitive Science，2018，4（1）：39−61．
