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Author : Yu-fen Liou
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book On Chinese Temporal Clauses written by Yu-fen Liou and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendan Li
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004360883
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse written by Wendan Li and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse Wendan Li offers a comprehensive and innovative account of how Mandarin Chinese, as a language without extensive morphological marking, highlights (or foregrounds) major events of a narrative and demotes (or backgrounds) other supporting descriptions. Qualitative and quantitative methods in the analysis and examinations of authentic written text provide extensive evidence to demonstrate that various types of morpho-syntactic devices are used in a wide range of structural units in Chinese to mark the distinction between foregrounding and backgrounding. The analysis paves the way for future studies to systematically approach grounding-related issues. The typological viewpoint adopted in the chapters serves well readers from both the Chinese tradition and other languages in discourse analysis.
Author : Halvor Eifring
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004482733
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Clause Combination in Chinese written by Halvor Eifring and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clause Combination in Chinese is an abundantly documented study of composite sentences in Modern Chinese, their semantic properties and syntactic behaviour. It discusses the extent of language variation, the relation between synchrony and diachrony, the nature of grammaticalization, generality and gradience, and the non-uniqueness of syntactic analysis. The first part provides a new categorization of clause combinations and clause connectives. It introduces a class of connectives often combining units larger than the sentence. It also discusses the frequent non-use of clause connectives in Chinese composite sentences. The second part contains case studies of composite sentences with unusual semantic properties, among them a hitherto unrecognized pattern with no English counterpart: adverbial clauses expressing necessity. The book should be of interest to all students of Chinese linguistics and to general linguists concerned with sentence complexity.
Author : Andy Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602353034
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Chinese Rhetoric and Writing written by Andy Kirkpatrick and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Kirkpatrick and and Zhichang Xu offer a response to the argument that Chinese students’ academic writing in English is influenced by “culturally nuanced rhetorical baggage that is uniquely Chinese and hard to eradicate.” Noting that this argument draws from “an essentially monolingual and Anglo-centric view of writing,” they point out that the rapid growth in the use of English worldwide calls for “a radical reassessment of what English is in today’s world.” The result is a book that provides teachers of writing, and in particular those involved in the teaching of English academic writing to Chinese students, an introduction to key stages in the development of Chinese rhetoric, a wide-ranging field with a history of several thousand years. Understanding this important rhetorical tradition provides a strong foundation for assessing and responding to the writing of this growing group of students.
Author : Fuyi Xing
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317519078
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Modern Chinese Grammar - a Clause-Pivot Approach written by Fuyi Xing and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Chinese Grammar provides a comprehensive coverage of Chinese grammar through the clause-pivot theory and the double triangle approach, first proposed by Fuyi Xing in 1996. Translated into English for the first time, the book is widely regarded by linguists as a seminal text, and ground-breaking in linguistics research. The book contains discussion of the topics which are essential to Chinese grammar, from words and phrases, to complex sentences and sentence groups. It addresses such controversial issues as word class identification, the distinction between words and phrases, and between clauses and complex sentences. The book also shows, through a wealth of examples, how the clause-pivot theory and the double triangle approach can be applied productively in grammatical studies. Modern Chinese Grammar: A Clause-Pivot Theoretical Approach is an essential purchase for researchers and graduate students of Chinese grammar and syntax.
Author : Yunfang Wu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331973573X
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Chinese Lexical Semantics written by Yunfang Wu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2017, held in Leshan, China, in May 2017. The 48 full papers and 5 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: lexical semantics; applications of natural language processing; lexical resources; and corpus linguistics.
Author : Paul Rouzer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174457
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese written by Paul Rouzer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forty lessons designed to introduce beginning students to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese are taken from a number of pre-Han and Han texts selected to give students a grounding in exemplary Classical Chinese style. Two additional lessons use texts from later periods to help students appreciate the changes in written Chinese over the centuries. Each lesson consists of a text, a vocabulary list featuring discussions of meaning and usage, explanations of grammar, and explications of difficult passages. The standard modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean pronunciations are indicated for each character, making this a learning tool for native speakers of those languages as well. Appendices give suggestions for further readings, review common and significant words, explain the radical system, and provide Japanese kanbun readings for all the selections. Glossaries of all vocabulary items and pronunciation indexes for modern Chinese and Korean are also included."
Author : Chris Shei
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351819380
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis written by Chris Shei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese is a discourse-oriented language and the underlying mechanisms of the language involve encoding and decoding so the language can be correctly delivered and understood. To date, there has been a lack of consolidation at the discourse level such that a reference framework for understanding the language in a top-down fashion is still underdeveloped. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis is the first to showcase the latest research in the field of Chinese discourse analysis to consolidate existing findings, put the language in both theoretical and socio-functional perspectives, offer guidance and insights for further research and inspire innovative ideas for exploring the Chinese language in the discourse domain. The book is aimed at both students and scholars researching in the areas of Chinese linguistics and discourse analysis.
Author : Dan Xu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402083211
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Space in Languages of China written by Dan Xu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space has long been a popular topic in linguistic research. Numerous books on the subject have been published over the past decade. However, none of these books were based on linguistic data from Chinese and expressions of space in Chinese have been largely neglected in past research. In this volume, not only Mandarin Chinese (the standard language) is investigated; several other dialects, as well as a minority language of China and Chinese Sign Language are studied. Cross-linguistic, synchronic and diachronic approaches are used to investigate phenomena related to space. The authors of this book present different points of view on the expression of space in language and related theoretical issues. As the contributing scholars argue, Chinese shares many common features with other languages, but also presents some particular properties. Space is a topic that is both classical and modern, of enduring interest. These studies of space give insight into not only general linguistics but also other domains such as anthropology and psychology.
Author : Łukasz Jędrzejowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027254478
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses written by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents novel insights into the micro- and macro-variation of causal clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic setting the scene and nine chapters based on data from Dutch, German, English, Icelandic, Chinese, and Japanese. Topics discussed in the individual chapters involve, inter alia, external, internal and linear syntax of adverbial clauses expressing a causal relation, their semantic interpretation and information-structural properties, verb position, volitionality, and the development of particular causal conjunctions. The findings gained here are of synchronic and diachronic nature and offer new theoretical perspectives on how causal dependency relationships are expressed by inherent causal morpho-syntactic patterns. They also provide a deeper comprehension of how sentential modifiers work, emerge, and develop in general. This volume is an asset to grammarians, syntacticians, theoretical, and historical linguists.
Author : Eric J. Reuland
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262181266
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (812 download)
Download or read book The Representation of (in)definiteness written by Eric J. Reuland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Representation of(In)definiteness collects the most important current research, reflecting a wide range of approaches, on a central theoretical issue in linguistics: characterizing the distinction between definite and indefinite expressions. The authors of these 11 original essays, which draw on current work in theoretical syntax and semantics, were charged by the editors to take more than usual heed of alternative analyses offered by other theories, thereby promoting cross fertilization of syntactic and semantic ideas, concepts, and argumentation. The project as a whole is grounded in the belief that explicit comparison of seemingly incompatible approaches is essential to improve our understanding of the nature and structure of natural language. Eric J. Reuland and Alice ter Meulen are Professors of Linguistics at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and the University of Washington respectively. The Representation of (In)definiteness is fourteenth in the series Current Studies in Linguistics, edited by Samuel Jay Keyser.
Author : Daniel Behn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108837581
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Legitimacy of Investment Arbitration written by Daniel Behn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorous and empirically-based analysis of the legitimacy challenges facing investment arbitration and the potential for reforms to remedy critique.
Author : Jerry Norman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139935631
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Chinese written by Jerry Norman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This general introduction to the study of the Chinese language traces its history from its beginings in the second millennium BC to the present day and provides a clear picture of the contemporary language and its sociolinguistic status. Chinese in its numerous dialect forms, has more speakers than any language in the modern world, and this vast extension in time and space brings to its study an exceptional complexity. Nevertheless, Professor Norman handles this extraordinary range of material with a deftness of organization and lucid elegance of style that make his book of real interest to any reader with only an elementary knowledge of linguistics. It includes information on the genetic and typological connections of Chinese, traditional Chinese phonology, the writing system, the classical and early vernacular languages, the modern language and the non-standard dialects, and the history of linguistic reform in China, concluding with a discussion of present and future prospects.
Author : (Vol.1)Barbara Lust
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317728807
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition written by (Vol.1)Barbara Lust and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of the human organism. These two volumes approach the study of UG by joint, tightly linked studies of both linguistic theory and human competence for language acquisition. In particular, the volumes collect comparable studies across a number of different languages, carefully analyzed by a wide range of international scholars. The issues surrounding cross-linguistic variation in "Heads, Projections, and Learnability" (Volume 1) and in "Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability" (Volume 2) are arguably the most fundamental in UG. How can principles of grammar be learned by general learning theory? What is biologically programmed in the human species in order to guarantee their learnability? What is the true linguistic representation for these areas of language knowledge? What universals exist across languages? The two volumes summarize the most critical current proposals in each area, and offer both theoretical and empirical evidence bearing on them. Research on first language acquisition and formal learnability theory is placed at the center of debates relative to linguistic theory in each area. The convergence of research across several different disciplines -- linguistics, developmental psychology, and computer science -- represented in these volumes provides a paradigm example of cognitive science.
Author : Andy Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602353026
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Chinese Rhetoric and Writing written by Andy Kirkpatrick and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Kirkpatrick and and Zhichang Xu offer a response to the argument that Chinese students’ academic writing in English is influenced by “culturally nuanced rhetorical baggage that is uniquely Chinese and hard to eradicate.” Noting that this argument draws from “an essentially monolingual and Anglo-centric view of writing,” they point out that the rapid growth in the use of English worldwide calls for “a radical reassessment of what English is in today’s world.” The result is a book that provides teachers of writing, and in particular those involved in the teaching of English academic writing to Chinese students, an introduction to key stages in the development of Chinese rhetoric, a wide-ranging field with a history of several thousand years. Understanding this important rhetorical tradition provides a strong foundation for assessing and responding to the writing of this growing group of students.
Author : Haidan Wang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000624293
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Chinese for Business and Professionals in the Workplace written by Haidan Wang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a series of the most up-to-date studies on Chinese for Specific Purposes (CSP), an area that has been underrepresented in Language for Specific Purposes (LSP). Drawing from the insights and trends in mainstream theoretical and methodological LSP research, chapters in this volume explore novelties that CSP has developed to prepare Chinese for professional learners for the global economy. These encompass: needs analysis of less-surveyed high school Business Chinese or CSP academic writing classes developments on internationally oriented engineering and internship programs in China innovations in Chinese for business or legal materials development and review on textbook pragmatics studies on language arts and Chinese language use in specific or business settings technology-driven, project-based learning — or discipline-specific curriculum design. Robustly supported by studies and analysis on the global scale, this volume comprises contributions by professionals from universities across Asia and the United States, each with decades of expertise in LSP. These chapters offer critical insights necessary to help LSP researchers and educators rethink curricula and develop new initiatives for LSP. They may also serve as transferable operations that enhance the practice of LSP as a crucial component of second language education.
Author : Henry Hung-Yeh Tiee
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816511662
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (116 download)
Download or read book A Reference Grammar of Chinese Sentences with Exercises written by Henry Hung-Yeh Tiee and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begins with simple single-word-subject and simple-predicate sentences and moves systematically to transformed simple sentences and finally to compound and complex sentences. Each sentence structure is not only descriptively analyzed, but also formulated in a pedagogical pattern with examples. Exercises are provided in each unit.
