An Analysis of the Sentence Pattern of Preverbal Object in Ancient Chinese -- Taking Interrogative Sentence as an Example

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10.2991/iccese-17.2017.85How to use a DOI?

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object preposition; the sentence pattern of "What is X of V?" in Chinese

Abstract

In the pre-Qin Dynasty, object preposition is a common syntactic phenomenon in Chinese word order, such as "for you alone to take the responsibilities", "what do you mean", and "is there anything wrong". The paper focuses on the analysis of the object preposition in the sentence pattern of "What is X of V?" in Chinese about the property of "X", syntactic characteristics of this sentence pattern and its historical evolution.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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