Interlanguage grammars of Mandarin Chinese / Boping Yuan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yuan, Boping, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Grammar.

Chinese language.

Second language acquisition.

Multilingualism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 359 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Considering a number of factors such as cross-linguistic influences, saliency and detectability of language cues, language complexity, and the interfaces involved, this book provides a systematic and coherent study of non-native grammars of Chinese. It covers a broad range of language aspects of Chinese as a non-native language, such as syntax, semantics, discourse, and pragmatics, as well as language phenomena specific to Chinese, such as classifiers, sentence final particles, the topic structure, and the ba-construction. It explores the effect on the linguistic structure of Chinese, when it is spoken as a second language by first-language speakers of English, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Spanish, Swedish, Russian and Palestinian Arabic, enabling the reader to understand the learners' mental representations of the underlying systems of the target language. New points of departure are also recommended for further research, making it essential reading for both Chinese language teaching practitioners, and academic researchers of non-native language acquisition.

Contents:

L2 Chinese nominal phrases

Aspectual, verbal and argument structures in L2 Chinese

Passives, BA-constructions and relative clauses in L2 Chinese

Topic structures, phonetically (un)realised subjects/objects and ellipsis in L2 Chinese

Reflexives in L2 Chinese grammars

L2 acquisition of Chinese Wh-words

Sentence-final particles in L2 and L3 Mandarin grammars.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Jul 2026).

ISBN:

9781009122047

9781009786010

OCLC:

1609711462