This book serves as accessible reference work on Chinese grammar with a attributive function focus. It explores the nature of fake attributives. Four types of fake attributive are discussed: (1) subject-originated attributives, that is, fake possessives caused by the V-DE Constraint on Object (VDCO) and V-V Compound Constraint on Object (VVCO), (2) object-originated attributives, namely, fake possessives caused by the VO Complex Verb Constraint on Object (VOCO), (3) fake nominal quantifiers, and (4) adverbial-originated attributives. It is found that most derivation of fake attributives is triggered within the module of syntax, although historically some variants have been formed by the influence of prosodic constraints.
An Introduction to Fake Attributives.- V-DE Constructions and Derivation
of Fake Possessives.- Resultative V-V Compounds and Fake Possessives thus
derived.- A Prosodic Perspective on De and fake possessives thus derived.- VO
Complex Verbs and Fake Possessives thus derived.- Derivation of Fake Nominal
Quantifiers.- AdverbialOriginated Attributives.- Conclusion.
Huibin Zhuang is a Professor of Linguistics at Shandong University, Weihai. Before joining Shandong University in early 2021, he had taught at Henan University for nearly nine years. He received his PhD from Shandong University in 2012. Sponsored by the China Scholarship Council, he was a visiting doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics (2010-2011) and an honorary fellow in the Language Sciences Program (2023-2024) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published five books on Chinese linguistics, in addition to more than 80 journal papers.
