Modern Chinese Grammar - a Clause-Pivot Approach / Edition 1

by Fuyi Xing, Yong Wang, Fangfeng Dong

Overview

Modern Chinese Grammar provides a comprehensive coverage of Chinese grammar through the clause-pivot theory and the double triangle approach, first proposed by Fuyi Xing in 1996.

Translated into English for the first time, the book is widely regarded by linguists as a seminal text, and ground-breaking in linguistics research. The book contains discussion of the topics which are essential to Chinese grammar, from words and phrases, to complex sentences and sentence groups. It addresses such controversial issues as word class identification, the distinction between words and phrases, and between clauses and complex sentences. The book also shows, through a wealth of examples, how the clause-pivot theory and the double triangle approach can be applied productively in grammatical studies.

Modern Chinese Grammar: A Clause-Pivot Theoretical Approach is an essential purchase for researchers and graduate students of Chinese grammar and syntax.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138855236
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/17/2016
Series:	Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics
Pages:	666
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Fuyi Xing has won many prizes and honours for his contribution to the study of Chinese grammar in China. His influence is felt internationally, and he is recognized as the founder to logic-oriented Chinese grammar in Russia, and as one of the most important Chinese grammarians of the 20th century in China.

Yong Wang is a professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Central China Normal University, China.

Fangfeng Dong is a professor in the School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University, China.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

PART I THE CLAUSE

Chapter 1. The Clause as the Pivot in Chinese Grammar

Chapter 2. The Principles of Clause Formation, Inclusion, and Conjoining

Chapter 3. Functional Assignment, Nucleus, and Clause Patterns

Chapter 4 Subject-Predicate and Predicator-Object

Chapter 5 Attribute–Head, Adverbial–Head, and Head–Complement

Chapter 6 Clause-Specific Features

PART II CLAUSE CONSTITUENTS

Chapter 7 Introduction of Constituent Units

Chapter 8 Constituent Words

Chapter 9 Special Constituent Words

Chapter 10 Non-constituent Words

Chapter 11 Phrases

Chapter 12 Problems in Word Class Identification

PART III CLAUSE-CONJOINING

Chapter 13 Formation of Complex Sentences

Chapter 14 Connectives in Complex Sentences

Chapter 15 Inter-clausal Relations and Patterns of Complex Sentences

Chapter 16 Diversity of Complex Sentence Patterns

Chapter 17 Sentence Groups

PART IV METHODOLOGY

Chapter 18 Complex Sentences and Related Issues

Chapter 19 Methodology: The minor triangle

Chapter 20 Methodology: The major triangle

Chapter 21 Methodology: The three adequacies in grammatical studies