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Pivotal Constructions in Chinese: Diachronic, synchronic, and constructional perspectives
Rui Peng
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse 8] 2017
► pp. 107–154

Chapter 5
The diachronic developments of Chinese pivotal constructions

Article outline
  • 5.1Introduction
    • 5.1.1Methodology
    • 5.1.2The historical periods for which data are examined
  • 5.2The history of the manipulative pivotal construction
    • 5.2.1The 17th–11th centuries bc
    • 5.2.2The 10th–7th centuries bc
    • 5.2.3The 6th–3rd centuries bc
    • 5.2.4The 2nd century bc–2nd century ad
    • 5.2.5The 3rd–6th centuries ad
    • 5.2.6The 7th–12th centuries ad
    • 5.2.7The 13th–17th centuries ad
    • 5.2.8A summary of the historical periods in which the primary types of the manipulative pivotal construction appeared
  • 5.3The history of the cause-complement pivotal construction
    • 5.3.1The emergence of the cause-complement pivotal construction
      • 5.3.1.1The parallelism between v 1[nv 2] and v 1[N zhi v 2]
      • 5.3.1.2The appearance of the hypotactic v emo nv 2
      • 5.3.1.3The emergence of a hypotactic v jud nv 2
    • 5.3.2The further development of the cause-complement pivotal construction
      • 5.3.2.1The 7th–14th centuries ad
      • 5.3.2.2The 15th–18th centuries ad
      • 5.3.2.3After the 19th century ad
    • 5.3.3A summary of the historical periods in which the primary types of the cause-complement pivotal construction appeared
  • 5.4The history of the descriptive pivotal construction
    • ?????????5.4.1Before the 5th century bc
    • 5.4.2The 5th century bc–1st century ad
    • 5.4.3The 7th–14th centuries ad
    • 5.4.4The 15th–19th centuries ad
    • 5.4.5After the 19th century ad
    • 5.4.6A summary of the historical periods in which the primary types of the cause-complement pivotal construction appeared
  • 5.5The expansion of the pivotal constructions with respect to the main semantic-pragmatic properties
  • Notes