Abstract: This study aims to discuss the Zhi from the perspective of crosslinguistics by seeing Zhi as a type of a complementizer that appears in the inner structure of subject-predicate. In the first place, it examines the universality of a complementizer through the examples of Korean and English. Based on this, the particularity of 之 as a complementizer in ancient Chinese will be discussed in this study. Second of all, it examines the correspondence relations and conditions of the complementizers of three languages by comparing the examples of complementizer ‘之’ with English and Korean translation, used in the book titled Mengzi, which is the representative literature in the pre-qin period. Lastly, it investigates the origin and cause of extinction of a complementizer, ‘之’ from the typological perspective.
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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