Book Title

A Reference Grammar of Chinese

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year of Publication

2016

ISBN

9780521181051

Introduction

A Reference Grammar of Chinese is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the linguistic structure of Chinese, covering all of the important linguistic features of the language and incorporating insights gained from research in Chinese linguistics over the past thirty years. With contributions from twenty-two leading Chinese linguists, this authoritative guide uses large-scale corpora to provide authentic examples based on actual language use. The accompanying online example databases ensure that a wide range of exemplars are readily available and also allow for new usages to be updated. This design offers a new paradigm for a reference grammar where generalizations can be cross-checked with additional examples and also provide resources for both linguistic studies and language learning. Featuring bilingual term lists, this reference grammar helps readers to access relevant literature in both English and Chinese and is an invaluable reference for learners, teachers and researchers in Chinese linguistics and language processing.

- Chapters are written by leading Chinese linguists
- Material is data-driven and corpus-based, meaning examples incorporate authentic contemporary Chinese
- Accompanying example database and citation database ensures the material remains relevant and up to date

Table of Contents
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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