A Reference Grammar of Mandarin Chinese for English SpeakersP. Lang, 1984 - 291 Seiten This reference grammar provides a description of Mandarin Chinese in familiar terms and enables the English-speaking reader to transfer his/her knowledge of English to the study of Chinese. Many of the unique features of the language are treated through a comparison with semantically corresponding, though syntactically different, features in English. Aside from the conventional types of sentences, special constructions are amply explained and illustrated for the reader. Understanding the specific meaning of each of these constructions is one of the central themes of the grammar. This book contains a number of original analyses, such as that of the «shi---de» construction and the notion of continuum for the indiscrete nature of linguistic structure, which should serve as a valuable reference source for both the language teacher and the profession of Chinese linguistics. |
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Sentences | 122 |
122 | 183 |
Special Constructions | 206 |
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action verb adverb agent aspect marker ba-sentence bei-sentence cái chỉ fàn Chinese sentence cognate object compound conjunctions context coverb dàjiā dào definite deleted diànying direct object dōngxi dōu duō English example expressed gěi grammatical hái hão he/she hearer hěn him/her huì indefinite words interpretation jiù kāi kuài lái main verb Mandarin Mandarin Chinese meaning measure words méi méiyǒu míngtiān movie năr negative particle néng Nimen noun phrase occur one-M patient perfective aspect position preceding predicate preposition preverbal pronoun qián question word relative clause rén scope of negation Section semantic shàng shénme shì shíhòu shū shuō speaker stative stative verb structure suffix syntactic tài Tamen that-M this-M topic translated V-not-V question verb complement verb ending Women xiān xiǎng xihuān yào yesterday yige yǒu zài Zhèige zhēn zuò