Features the most common Chinese vocabulary used in everyday speech, providing root words and compounds as well as important related words and definitions. Includes sample sentences in Mandarin Chinese and English, and arranged according to the graduated order of frequency and c…
This book presents new research into the great structural diversity found in Sinitic languages. While many studies focus principally on Standard Mandarin, this work draws on extensive empirical data from lesser-known languages, and seeks to dispel many recurrent linguistic myths…
This book presents new research into the great structural diversity found in Sinitic languages. While many studies focus principally on Standard Mandarin, this work draws on extensive empirical data from lesser-known languages, and seeks to dispel many recurrent linguistic myths…
This book presents new research into the great structural diversity found in Sinitic languages. While many studies focus principally on Standard Mandarin, this work draws on extensive empirical data from lesser-known languages, and seeks to dispel many recurrent linguistic myths…
1 Introduction -- 2 Prosodic Word as an Origin of Compounds in Classical Chinese -- 3 Monosyllabicity and Disyllabicity -- 4 Prosodically Constrained Compound Formation -- 5 Minimal and Maximal Word Effects -- 6 Prosodic Register Grammar -- 7 Compound Prosodic Word -- Sizige??? …
"It is not entirely clear if modern Chinese is a monosyllabic or disyllabic language. Although a disyllabic prosodic unit of some sort has long been considered by many to be at play in Chinese grammar, the intuition is not always rigidly fleshed out theoretically in the area of …
Language and Social Change in China: Undoing Commonness through Cosmopolitan Mandarin offers an innovative and authoritative account of the crucial role of language in shaping the sociocultural landscape of contemporary China. Based on a wide range of data collected since the 19…
