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Modern Chinese Grammar I: Syntax

Modern Chinese Grammar I: Syntax

Hardcover

Series: China Perspectives

ChineseLinguistics

ISBN10: 1032319526
ISBN13: 9781032319520
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 31 2022
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Focusing on the fundamental grammatical units and construction in modern Chinese, this title is the first volume of a classic on modern Chinese grammar by WANG Li, one of the most distinguished Chinese linguists.

Based on the corpus of two classic Chinese novels and being part of a four-volume set that describes the various linguistic patterns of modern Chinese grammar, this volume first distinguishes Chinese characters from words, categorizes words into different word classes and discusses the different word classes according to the number of syllables. The complex structures, which include phrases, sentences and various grammatical constructions such as those of optative, causative, disposal, passive, annex and retrenched, are then classified and elaborated on. Drawing on Otto Jespersen's theory, the author applies the notion of rank to construct a new framework for Chinese grammar.

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