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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788547103321

Titolo

Current issues in Chinese linguistics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Yun Xiao, Liang Tao and Hooi Ling Soh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2011

ISBN

1-280-48580-9

9786613580788

1-4438-3248-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (617 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

XiaoYun

TaoLiang

SohHooi Ling

Disciplina

495.1

Soggetti

Chinese language

Chinese language - Grammar, Generative

Chinese language - Semantics

Chinese language - Phonetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Conference proceedings.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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...