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A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese

Author：Qu Chengxi

  • Medium：Books
  • ISBN： 9787561916759
  • Page Count： 350
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  • Pub Date：2006-09
  • The book weight： 611 g
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This book makes synchronic studies of texts and diachronic studies of functions in an effort to illustrate the relationship between clauses and their expression forms. The feature of this book is that it firstly examines the core meaning or functions of each form, and then explores its derived explanations. The following issues are involved in this book: the textural functions of aspect marking, the positions of modal adverbs in texts, the explanations and analysis of function words at the end of sentences, the illustration of information structures, the relationship between the subordinate structures and their context, the contribution of the anaphora to the text structures, the prototype of topics and the definition of Chinese topics, the differences and similarities between a topic chain and “Chinese sentences”. Finally, this book provides an exact definition of “Chinese sentences” based on what are discussed above.
Chu, Chauncey was born in Changshu of Jiangsu in 1930. He received his Bachelor and Master degree from Taiwan Normal University and got his Master and PhD degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He taught at Taiwan Normal University and University of Florida (UF) successively. He was Associate Chair of the Department of African and Asian Languages and Literature at UF. After retired from UF in 2003, he is now working as a Visiting Professor of Heilongjiang University as well as a Part-time Professor of Fudan University. He was the Director of Chinese Language Teachers’ Association in 1990 and Executive Council Member of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching in 1996 and 2003. His works include: Essays on Linguistics: Theory, Application and Chinese Language Grammar (1979), A Reference Grammar of Mandarin Chinese for English Speakers（1983）、Historical Syntax：Theory and Application to Chinese（1987）、A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese（1998）, A Cognitive-Functional Grammar of Mandarin Chinese（1999/2004）, A Concise Grammar of Mandarin Chinese （1999）. Professor Chu has published over 80 papers and book reviews.
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