10% off all books and free delivery over £50
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese II

View All Editions (4)

The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now.
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review

About

Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese II Synopsis

The functional perspective on Chinese syntax has yielded various new achievements since its introduction to Chinese linguistics in the 1980s.

This two-volume book is one of the earliest and most influential works to study the Chinese language using functional grammar. With local Beijing vernacular (Pekingese) as a basis, the information structure and focus structure of the Chinese language are systematically examined. By using written works and recordings from Beijingers, the authors discuss topics such as the relationship between word order and focus, and the distinction between normal focus and contrastive focus.

In addition, the authors also subject the reference and grammatical categories of the Chinese language to a functional scrutiny while discussion of word classes and their functions creatively combines modern linguistic theories and traditional Chinese linguistic theories. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese linguistics and linguistics in general.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9781032236988
Publication date:
Author: Bojiang Zhang, Mei Fang
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 202 pages
Series: Chinese Linguistics
Genres: Grammar, syntax and morphology