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Chinese Middle Constructions

Part of the Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics Book Series (volume 2)

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-6187-5

ISBN: 978-981-10-6186-8

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Nov 15, 2017

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Chapter 1The Middle Voice Versus the Middle Construction

Xiong, Jiajuan

Pages: 1 –14

[This book is a study of the middle constructions in Chinese. In addition to Chinese, many other languages, geographically as well as genetically remote from Chinese, will be discussed for comparative purposes.]
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Chapter 2Middle Constructions: Previous Research

Xiong, Jiajuan

Pages: 15 –47

[This chapter reviews past research on middle constructions, with a focus on middle formation mechanisms, which has provided the basis of various explanations of middle properties.]
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Chapter 3The Qilai Middle

Xiong, Jiajuan

Pages: 49 –133

[This chapter mainly deals with a subtype of qilai structures, which is identified as one of several types of middle constructions in Chinese.]
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Chapter 4The Hao and Rongyi/Nan Middles

Xiong, Jiajuan

Pages: 135 –205

[Successive to the study of the qilai middle in Chap. 3, this chapter focuses on two types of Chinese middle construction, namely, the hao middle and the rongyi/nan middle.]
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Chapter 5The de and Bu Middles

Xiong, Jiajuan

Pages: 207 –248

[This chapter deals with the de middle and the bu middle, which are positive and negative in polarity, respectively. However, they cannot be treated as one construction with different polar values, since not all instances of the bu middle have their positive de counterparts.]
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Chapter 6More on Chinese Middles

Xiong, Jiajuan

Pages: 249 –265

[This chapter will start with the identification of a type of middle that I have so far not discussed. I will term them “transitive middles” in Sect. 6.1, because they present themselves as transitive sentences. Despite the syntactic difference with the unergative type of middles discussed in the...
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Chapter 7Conclusions

Xiong, Jiajuan

Pages: 267 –268

[I first set out to distinguish the middle construction from the middle voice in Chap. 1, considering that the two terms are often used interchangeably in the literature, but with different connotations.]

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