It can be used as a textbook for. Mandarin linguistics, or by professionals as a reference book on the major aspects of the language. There are parts in which ...
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With its five sections on diferent aspects of Chinese syntax, approached from a formal perspective, the current volume aims to provide readers with a broad exposure to some of the exciting range of new work on Chinese syntax that is being carried out by prominent researchers in the field.
Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests lie in formal syntax, syntax-semantics interface, syntax-information structure interface, and parametric syntax with special focus on Cantonese, Mandari
This article employs the audio software Audacity and leverages theoretical knowledge to conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mandarin Chinese. The study initiates with an overview of the fundamental principles underlying Mandarin pronunciation, aiming to provide insights into its phonetic structure.
The most significant findings of studies of modern Chinese centered on Chinese grammar. surface of language, in order to construct abstract principles,
The Native. Language Magnet theory (NLM) claims that the perception of phonetic categories is biased by language-specific input early in life, which impacts.
In contrast to modern phonological theories, tradi- tional Chinese phonology divided the syllable into two nondecomposable parts: an initial (shēngmŭ) and a ...
However, data from Mandarin Chinese pose some theoretical problems for the Binding Principle B. Specifically, different embedding verbs affect the binding relations between a pronoun in the embedded clause and the potential binder in the matrix clause.
Here, a sector of Mandarin Chinese grammar is examined in order to determine what kinds of relationships exist between the deep and surface structures and how these relationships relate to language universals.
Among linguists, the study of Mandarin phonology has driven theory- building in generative linguistics (Duanmu 2007), while work by sociolinguists has illumi-.
This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar. It caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for linguists from other fields with an interest in information-structure, focus and contrastive topics, and quantification.
This guide to Chinese syntax analyzes the majority of constructions in Chinese that have featured in theoretical linguistics in the past twenty-five years, using the authors’ own analyses as well as existing or potential alternative treatments.
This paper gives an overview of GF, emphasiz- ing applications where Chinese is related to other languages. We also address the theoretical ...
A system based on, or derived from, what is known as the pinyin system for learning Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese).
This guide to Chinese syntax analyzes the majority of constructions in Chinese that have featured in theoretical linguistics in the past twenty-five years, using the authors’ own analyses as well as existing or potential alternative treatments.
ABSTRACT. Some key issues in the analysis of Chinese grammars in the past five decades are identified and discussed from typological perspectives. They.
Introduction. The distributional properties of Mandarin vowels provide an excellent opportunity to examine issues related to the categorization of speech ...
I analyze the Mandarin disjunctions háishi and huòzhe to be the same in both projecting their disjuncts as focus values, but differing in whether ordinary semantic values are defined.
Argument-omission structures in Mandarin Chinese, including omit-ting the subject, object and the head of “de” phrase, can be fully explained by Xu Jie’s theory of Generalized Case Theory.
This paper explains how sociocultural theory (SCT), particularly its three key concepts: mediation, zone of proximal development, and agency, can be used to guide the course design of college-level 1st-year Mandarin Chinese hybrid courses.
