Current issues in Chinese linguistics / edited by Yun Xiao, Liang Tao and Hooi Ling Soh.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Xiao, Yun (Linguist)

Tao, Liang.

Soh, Hooi Ling.

Conference Name:

North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (21st : 2009 : Bryant University)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Congresses.

Chinese language.

Chinese language--Grammar, Generative--Congresses.

Chinese language--Semantics--Congresses.

Chinese language--Phonetics--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (617 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chinese is the most commonly spoken language in the world and one of the very few contemporary languages whose history is documented in an unbroken tradition extending back to the second millennium. Compared with Western languages, Chinese has a typology with distinguished features in sound system, syntax, and discourse that have a strong impact on Chinese linguistics studies and language learning. Drawing on theoretical models from formal and functional linguistics, discourse analysis, compu...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART II; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; PART III; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; PART IV; CHAPTER NINETEEN; CHAPTER TWENTY; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-48580-9

9786613580788

1-4438-3248-0

OCLC:

794544537