Parts of Speech in Mandarin The State of the Art
This book offers a comprehensive survey of the major parts of speech in Mandarin. Seeking to identify the sets of universal and language-specific categories, it compares the range of categories available in Mandarin and the Indo-European languages and est
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Parts of Speech in Mandarin The State of the Art
Parts of Speech in Mandarin
Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
Parts of Speech in Mandarin The State of the Art
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Candice Chi-Hang Cheung Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hung Hom, Kowloon Hong Kong
ISBN 978-981-10-0396-7 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0398-1
ISBN 978-981-10-0398-1
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This book is dedicated to my parents
Acknowledgments
This book grew out of my book chapter titled “Chinese: Parts of Speech,” which has been published in The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language. While most of the chapters in this book stem from that work, they have been substantially revised. I am grateful to Sin-Wai Chan, editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language, for inviting me to contribute to his volume. Thanks are due to many scholars working on Chinese linguistics for their helpful discussions with me while I was working on this book, notably Miao-Ling Hsieh, Jim Huang, Richard Larson, Paul Law, Audrey Li, Jo-Wang Lin, Dingxu Shi, Shu-Ing Shyu, Andrew Simpson, Sze-Wing Tang, Dylan Tsai, Ting-Chi Wei, Yaqing Wu, Barry Yang, and Niina Zhang. I am deeply indebted to Paul Law and Sze-Wing Tang for reading an earlier version of the manuscript and providing useful comments and suggestions. I would like to pay special tribute to the late Jean-Roger Vergnaud, whose wide spectrum of scholarly expertise and whose interest in Universal Grammar have inspired me to pursue a comparative approach to the study of Chinese syntax. I also thank my former research assistants and graduate students who have contributed to this book. It has been my great pleasure to work with these young t
