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 [Anticipating a new horizon of the historical syntax of Chinese incorporating philology and linguistics]. In Dah-an Ho (ed.), 第三屆國際漢學會議論文集 語言組《古今通塞：漢語的歷史發展》 [Papers from the Third International Conference on Sinology (National Tsing Hua University), Linguistics Section. ’Ancient and Modern Tongsai: Chinese History and Development’], 23–47. Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Preparatory Office, Academia Sinica.
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