The Structure of Major Clause Types in Mandarin Chinese
Author | : John Shou-kang Tong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Chinese language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Shou-kang Tong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Chinese language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Shou-kang Tong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Chinese language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cameron Jay Beatty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Chinese language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Xiaoling He |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2019-06-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027262349 |
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 | : May Lai-Yin Wong |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9783034311205 |
What are adverbial clauses in Chinese? Do they all have subjects as their counterparts do in English? How do the semantic domains of adverbial clauses interact with the distribution of subjects? How do Chinese corpora help us explore these intriguing questions?<BR> The aim of this study is to demonstrate the usefulness of corpus linguistics as a methodology in grammar studies. A problem-oriented tagging approach has been used to enable the exploration of adverbial clauses in the corpus and to identify eleven semantically based classes of adverbial clauses. While it is a well-known fact that Chinese adverbial clauses (CACs) are overtly marked by a subordinating conjunction, their subjects can be left unexpressed and recovered in the prior discourse. By analysing naturally occurring spoken and written samples from various corpora, the author examines this intriguing phenomenon of overt and non-overt subjects in adverbial clauses.
Author | : T. W. Kim |
Publisher | : Carbondale [Ill.] ; Edmonton : Linguistic Research |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
This annotated bibliography covers materials on Chinese language and linguistics published from 1940 through 1979. Approximately 150 entries are included, covering textbooks, dictionaries, study and teaching materials on Mandarin Chinese, general descriptions of Chinese, linguistics, writing system, and bibliographies. An author index is appended. (JB)
Author | : Nancy Jokovich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Dissertations, Academic |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Weirong Chen |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2020-02-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1501511505 |
Southern Min (also known as Hokkien or Minnan) is a major branch of Chinese spoken mainly in Fujian and Taiwan, but also in Guangdong, Hainan and Hong Kong, as well as in many countries of Southeast Asia. Highly conservative in its linguistic profile, it is considered by many scholars to be a living language fossil due to the preservation of many archaic features that reflect its long-lasting history and culture. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive study of Southern Min using a typological framework, as the tendency is to base analyses on the model of Mandarin Chinese, the standard language. This grammar aims to present a systematic description of the Hui'an variety of Southern Min, mainly based on data collected via naturally occurring conversation. The volume includes four parts: nominal structure, predicate structure, clause structure and complex sentences, as well as a brief overview of phonology. It will have great appeal for heritage speakers, graduate students and scholars in both Chinese linguistics and typology.