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Author : Jiaxuan Shen
Release : 1987*
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Book Synopsis Subject Function and Double Subject Construction in Mandarin Chinese by : Jiaxuan Shen
Download or read book Subject Function and Double Subject Construction in Mandarin Chinese written by Jiaxuan Shen. This book was released on 1987*. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xiaoling He
Release : 2019-06-15
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese by : Xiaoling He
Download or read book Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese written by Xiaoling He. This book was released on 2019-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood structures in the language. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history, structure, meaning and use of the PSC. Unlike previous descriptions which were framed in terms of pre-existing grammatical notions such as ‘topicalization’, ‘passivization’ and ‘ergativization’, this book offers a fresh look at the PSC, in which its syntactic and semantic as well as its discourse functions are examined within the system of major construction-types of the language as a whole. The PSC, being low in transitivity, serves primarily the function of backgrounding in discourse. Typologically, the PSC bears a resemblance to middle constructions in Indo-European and other languages, raising interesting questions about ways to understand congruent and divergent syntactic structures across the world’s languages. This book will be of interest to students of Chinese Linguistics as well as Language Typology.
Author : C-T James Huang
Release : 2012-12-06
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics by : C-T James Huang
Download or read book New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics written by C-T James Huang. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade and a half has witnessed a great deal of renewed interest in the study of Chinese linguistics, not only in the traditional areas of philological studies and in theoretically oriented areas of syn chronic grammar and language change but also in the cultivation of new frontiers in related areas of the cognitive sciences. There is a significant increase in the number of students studying one area or another of the linguistic structure of Chinese in various linguistic programs in the United States, Europe, Australia and in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and other parts of Asia. Several new academic departments devoted to the study of linguistics have been established in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the past few years. The increasing research and study activities have also resulted in a number of national and international conferences, including the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), which has been held annually in the United States; the International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL), which has had its fourth meeting since it was launched by Academia Sinica in Taiwan in 1990; the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (lACL), created in Singapore in 1992 and now incorporated in Irvine, California, which has held its annual meetings at major institutions in Asia, Europe, and the US.
Author : 曹逢甫
Release : 1990
Genre : Chinese language
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Book Synopsis Sentence and Clause Structure in Chinese by : 曹逢甫
Download or read book Sentence and Clause Structure in Chinese written by 曹逢甫. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jian Kang Loar
Release : 2011
Genre : Chinese language
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Book Synopsis Chinese Syntactic Grammar by : Jian Kang Loar
Download or read book Chinese Syntactic Grammar written by Jian Kang Loar. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Syntactic Grammar: Functional and Conceptual Principles is unique in that it discusses the organizational principles of Chinese syntactic structures in terms of conceptual and functional principles, which are iconic and hence are easy to understand and apply. The organizational principles mainly comprise the three Chinese conceptual principles of Temporal Sequence, Temporal Scope, and Whole-Before-Part (Tai, 1985) and the two functional principles of Communicative Dynamism and the Principle of Topic-End Focus. By analyzing the semantic roles of each clause element, Chinese Syntactic Grammar reveals that the conceptual principles play a crucial role in organizing ideas and bringing units (such as subject, verb, and object) together to form grammatical sequences, which manifest S (A) V O (C), which is the basic Chinese word order. The functional principles control and govern variations of the basic sentence structure, which are motivated to facilitate effective communication and achieve specific communicative goals, thus generating several special structures, including the Bá/Bèi/null Bèi sentences, etc. The variant forms are motivated to achieve special communicative goals, and to facilitate effective communication. Another feature of the book is that it focuses on reasons, rather than merely on a description of rules. The language is lucid, and the arguments are cogent. The scope and depth of the investigation make the volume one of the most thorough and relatively complete pedagogical reference books. Chinese Syntactic Grammar can serve as a textbook for training professional CFL teachers. It is a must-read book for Mandarin Chinese teachers as a handy manual, also for intermediate and advanced Chinese learners if they want to have deeper insight into the nature of the Chinese language. Linguists who are interested in cognitive grammar and specialists across many fields including education, psychology, communication, and information science will find the book enlightening and interesting.
