Grammaticalization

and

the Development of Functional Categories in Chinese

Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu

Acknowledgments/Abstract

1.  Overview

2.  The Classifier Ge: Movement and Re-analysis

3.  Relative Clause De: Directionality, Clausal Raising and Sentence-final Particles

4.  De in Focus Sentences: from D⁰ to T⁰

5.  Resultative Constructions: Directionality and Re-analysis

6.  Verbal –Le: Aspect and Tense

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