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Syntactic Opposition for Nouns and Verbs as an Argument of a Clause in Late Classical Chinese Text Lunheng I A. D.
- Authors: Durymanova A.D.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Russian State University for the Humanities
- National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
- Issue: Vol 83, No 4 (2024)
- Pages: 74-85
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://rjonco.com/1605-7880/article/view/657013
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S1605788024040086
- ID: 657013
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This article analyzes the syntactic features of presumably nominal and verbal lexemes in argument positions based on the material of a late classical text of the 1st century AD. “Lunheng”. The main proposed tool for syntactic analysis is a system of distinctive contexts (allow to determine the syntactic position of the lexeme under study). Such acriteriahelped to parse and analyze more than twenty-five thousand clauses. It appeared that there is a great frequency difference in the number of verb and noun lexemes encountered in given argument contexts (69.48% and 87.84%, respectively), there are also other differences in contexts’ frequency, conditions and restrictions of use. Potentially, these results may highlight some restrictions of free syntactic shift, and as a result indirectly indicate rigid flexibility of the system of categories in Old Chinese with a number of limitations.
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A. D. Durymanova
Russian State University for the Humanities; National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
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Email: durymanova.a.d@mail.ru
Lecturer at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Lecturer at the National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
Russian Federation, Moscow; MoscowReferences
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