Syntactic Symmetry and Cognitive Hierarchy of Chinese - Thai's "you+NP"

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  • Fenglong Zhang Chinese Language Program, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkhla University, Hatyai Campus, Thailand 90110

Keywords:

syntactic symmetry, container metaphor, cognitive hierarchy

Abstract

This paper presents a syntactic description and a comparative analysis of the syntactic and semantic aspects of the Chinese-Thai’s "you+NP" structure, using the traditional structural grammar description and the concept of animate/non-animate cognition. The syntactic symmetry, container metaphor, and other related theories are used to demonstrate that Chinese-Thai’s "you+NP" structure both have meanings of large quantity, and can explain a series of related grammatical phenomena.

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2022-08-16

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Zhang, F. (2022). Syntactic Symmetry and Cognitive Hierarchy of Chinese - Thai’s "you+NP". Journal of Sinology (วารสารจีนวิทยา), 16(2), 69–85. retrieved from https://so16.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JSINO/article/view/2994

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Vol. 16 No. 2: July - September 2022

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