Modern Chinese Complex Sentences IV - General Review

This book is the final volume of a four-volume set on modern Chinese complex sentences, assessing the key attributes, related sentence structures, and semantic and pragmatic relevance of complex sentences.

List of contents

1. Counter-constraints of complex sentence form on semantic relationships 2. Sentences containing type crossover markers 3. Distinctions and Confusion between Simple Sentences and Complex Sentences 4. “Attribute + Noun” Structure acting as a clause 5. “NP le” acting as a clause 6. Double-subject sentences related to complex sentences 7. Subject Ellipsis and Tacit Subject in Posterior Clause 8. shǐ-sentences with a tacit subject 9. Alternative Question Groups: Beyond the Scope of Complex Sentences (Case Study 1) 10. Alternative Question Group Introduced by a Co-referential Special Question: Beyond the Scope of Complex Sentences (Case Study 2)

About the author

XING Fuyi is a renowned Chinese linguist and a senior professor at Central China Normal University. He has been devoted to the studies of modern Chinese grammar and has initiated the clause-pivotal approach for modern Chinese grammar studies. His other major publications include Modern Chinese Grammar: A Clause-Pivot Approach and Three Hundred Qs & As about Chinese Grammar.

Summary

This book is the final volume of a four-volume set on modern Chinese complex sentences, assessing the key attributes, related sentence structures, and semantic and pragmatic relevance of complex sentences.

Product details

• Authors: XING Fuyi, Xing (Professor Fuyi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032465128
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3246512-8
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Chinese Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Chinese, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology