Reference Grammar of Chinese

Informationen zum Autor Chu-Ren Huang is Chair Professor of Applied Chinese Language Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dingxu Shi is a Chair Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Klappentext Current, comprehensive and written by leading scholars, this corpus-based reference work is the definitive guide to Chinese grammar. Zusammenfassung A Reference Grammar of Chinese offers comprehensive coverage of all the important linguistic features of the language! written by renowned experts. The corpus-based approach and accompanying example and citation databases make this the ultimate guide to Chinese grammar for students! teachers and researchers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Preliminaries Chu-Ren Huang and Dingxu Shi; 2. Syntactic overview Dingxu Shi and Chu-Ren Huang; 3. Lexical word formation Jerome Packard; 4. Verbs and verb phrases Audrey Y. H. Li; 5. Aspectual system Sze-Wing Tang; 6. Negation Haihua Pan, Po Lun Peppina Lee and Chu-Ren Huang; 7. Classifiers Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang; 8. Nouns and nominal phrases Dingxu Shi; 9. Relative constructions Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip; 10. Adjectives and adjective phrases Shi-Zhe Huang, Jing Jin and Dingxu Shi; 11. Comparison Marie-Claude Paris and Dingxu Shi; 12. Adverbs Yung-O Biq and Chu-Ren Huang; 13. Prepositions and preposition phrases Jingxia Lin and Chaofen Sun; 14. Sentence types Weidong Zhan and Xiaojing Bai; 15. Major non-canonical clause types ba and bei Hilary Chappell and Dingxu Shi; 16. Deixis and anaphora Yan Jiang; 17. Information structure Shu-ing Shyu; Appendix. Punctuations Shui Duen Chan.

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• Authors: Chu-Ren (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Huang, Chu-Ren (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Universi Huang, Chu-Ren Shi Huang
• Assisted by: Chu-Ren Huang (Editor), Huang Chu-Ren (Editor), Dingxu Shi (Editor), Shi Dingxu (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780521769396
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76939-6
• No. of pages: 630
• Series: Reference Grammars; Reference Grammars
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Chinese, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Usage & grammar guides, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Usage and grammar guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary