Chinese
This page is intended as a comprehensive bibliography of pseudocoordination in Chinese; for discussion, see Section 2.2.3.5 of Ross (2021). If you have any feedback or additional references to suggest, please contact me.
Status
- Description status: limited information
- Current bibliographic coverage: incomplete
- Total references: 2
- Last updated: December 2022, based on dissertation (Dec. 2021), Section 2.2.3.5
Summary
Pseudocoordination is not found in Chinese today, especially given that the use of conjunctions to combine verbs is rare, and with use of serial verb constructions well established. However, it has been proposed that some serial verb constructions may have grammaticalized from Ancient Chinese constructions with 而 (ér 'and') connecting two verbs.
Possible pseudocoordination in Ancient Chinese
Mei, Kuang [梅廣]. 2003. 迎接一個考證學和語言學結合的 漢語語法史研究新局面. In Dah-an Ho [何大安] (ed.), 第三屆國際漢學會議論文集語言組《古今通塞：漢語的歷史與發展》 [Papers from the Third International Conference on Sinology, Linguistics Section: Historical Development of Chinese Language], 23–47. 臺北市: 中央研究院語言學研究所籌備處.
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan. 2007. Conjunctive Reduction and its Origin: A Comparative Study of Tsou, Amis, and Squliq Atayal. Oceanic Linguistics 46(2). 585–602. https://doi.org/10.1353/ol.2008.0009