The Grammar of Chinese Characters: Productive Knowledge of Formal Patterns in an Orthographic System

ISBN-13: 9781138290815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 234 str.

James Myers

Opis

This book explores the system of patterns in the visual form of traditional and simplified Chinese characters. It proposes that character grammar is rich and coherent, this grammar is mentally active, and it is grounded in the same cognitive systems underlying the morphology and phonology of spoken and signed languages.

Spis treści

1. Chinese Character Grammar: The Very Idea  2. Character Morphology  3. Character Phonology and Phonetics  4. Corpus-based Evidence for Character Grammar  5. Experimental Evidence for Character Grammar  6. Implications and Applications

O autorze

James Myers is Professor of Linguistics at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. He has published numerous articles applying quantitative and experimental methods to grammatical issues in Chinese and other languages, and has also (co-)edited volumes on sign language, empirical grammatical research, and Chinese linguistics.