Modern Chinese Parts of Speech: Classification Theory

ISBN-13: 9780367661076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

Guo Rui

Opis

The book uses four strategies to divide parts of speech, namely homogeneity strategy, homomorphical strategy, priority homomorphical strategy and consolidation strategy. It may be a valuable reference for Chinese linguistic researchers and students as well as Chinese learners.

Spis treści

Foreword to the Chinese edition 

List of figures

List of tables

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Basic issues concerning classification of parts of speech

Chapter Three: Possibilities and purposes of classifying parts of speech

Chapter Four: Essence and expressional functions of  a part of speech

Chapter Five: Criteria for classifying parts of speech

Chapter Six: How to classify parts of speech according to distribution

Chapter Seven: Conversional words and nominalization

Chapter Eight: Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Guo Rui is a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University. His main research lies  in Chinese grammar and semantics.