Parts of Speech in Mandarin: The State of the Art

ISBN-13: 9789811091513 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 146 str.

Candice Chi-Hang Cheung

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.- Abbreviations.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part I Categories Found in Mandarin and the Indo-European Languages.- Chapter 2 Nouns.- Chapter 3 Verbs.- Chapter 4 Adjectives.- Chapter 5 Prepositions.- Chapter 6 Adverbs.- Chapter 7 Conjunctions.- Part II Categories Uniquely Available in Mandarin.- Chapter 8 Classifiers.- Chapter 9 Localizers.- Chapter 10 Sentence-Final Particles.- References.- Index.

O autorze

Candice Chi-Hang Cheung is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at the 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, English, Mandarin  and minority languages spoken in mainland China. She has published articles in a number of linguistic journals, such as the Journal of East Asian Linguistics and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.