A Practical Chinese Grammar

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The book is a comprehensive grammar handbook for teachers and students of the Chinese language. In fifty lessons, it examines both structural patterns and morphological features characteristic of Mandarin Chinese. It describes cultural idlosyncracles in language use as well as discoursal strategies for forming sustained conversations. The scope and depth of the investigation make this Chinese grammar one of the most thorough pedagogical manuals written In English.
Designed for classroom use, the book is both descriptive and prescriptive In approach. It studies individual linguistic phenomena in great detail, delineating their grammatical and pragmatic applications. Patterns and rules are clearly marked for easy reference. Some of the specific subject examined are word formation, word order, question formation, aspect marking, comple construction, the ba and bei sentences, and sentence conjunction. The discussions are illu with ample and often humorous examples, some cast In... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The book is a comprehensive grammar handbook for teachers and students of the Chinese language. In fifty lessons, it examines both structural patterns and morphological features characteristic of Mandarin Chinese. It describes cultural idlosyncracles in language use as well as discoursal strategies for forming sustained conversations. The scope and depth of the investigation make this Chinese grammar one of the most thorough pedagogical manuals written In English.
Designed for classroom use, the book is both descriptive and prescriptive In approach. It studies individual linguistic phenomena in great detail, delineating their grammatical and pragmatic applications. Patterns and rules are clearly marked for easy reference. Some of the specific subject examined are word formation, word order, question formation, aspect marking, comple construction, the ba and bei sentences, and sentence conjunction. The discussions are illu with ample and often humorous examples, some cast In dialogue form and some introduce situational scenarios. Whenever necessary, anomalies are noted and ungrammatical included for clarification. The book facilitates our understanding of Chinese an necessary foundation for further language pursuit. The investigation also contai controversial issues that may be of particular interest to those working in th linguistics and second language acquisition.
Hung-nin Samuel Cheung is Professor of Chinese at the Universi Sze-yun Liu retired from University of California, Berkeley in 1993 Chinese for twenty years.
Ll-lin Shih joined the Chinese program at University of Calif
retired in 1992. Vissza