Chinese Linguistics
About the Book Series
Chinese Linguistics series selects representative and frontier works in linguistic disciplines including lexicology, grammar, phonetics, dialectology, philology and rhetoric. Mostly published in Chinese before, the selection has had far-reaching influence on China’s linguistics and offered inspiration and reference for the world’s linguistics. The aim of this series is to reflect the general level and latest development of Chinese linguistics from an overall and objective view.
A Brief History of the Chinese Language III: From Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese Phonetic System
1st Edition
By Xi Xiang
May 27, 2024
As the third volume of a multivolume set on Chinese phonetics, this book examines the phonetical system of Modern Chinese and phonetical changes from Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese. Chinese language history is generally split into three phases: (1) Old Chinese, the form of the Chinese language ...
Modern Chinese Complex Sentences I: Overview and Causal Type
1st Edition
By XING Fuyi
May 27, 2024
This book is the first of a four-volume set on modern Chinese complex sentences, and is focused on the overall characteristics and the casual complex sentences in the language in particular. Complex sentences in modern Chinese are unique in information and meaning. The author proposes a tripartite ...
Language: The Last Homestead of Human Beings
1st Edition
By Guanlian Qian
December 19, 2022
Heidegger characterizes the relationship between language and Being as "language is the house of Being", negating the idea that language is merely a tool ready to be used at hand. Drawing on this idea, as well as ideas from anthropology, pragmatics, and folklore studies, the author argues that "...
Loanwords in the Chinese Language
1st Edition
By Shi Youwei
August 01, 2022
A loanword, or wailaici, is a word with similar meaning and phonetic form to a word from a foreign language that has been naturalized in the recipient language. From ancient times, cultural exchanges between China and other countries has brought and integrated a myriad of loanwords to the Chinese ...
Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese I: Overview and Notional Words
1st Edition
By Liu Yuehua, Pan Wenyu, Gu Wei
May 06, 2022
Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increased popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's targeted at second language learners. This ...
Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese III: Sentence Constituents
1st Edition
By Liu Yuehua, Pan Wenyu, Gu Wei
May 06, 2022
Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increased popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's targeted at second language learners. This ...
Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese II: Function Words
1st Edition
By Liu Yuehua, Pan Wenyu, Gu Wei
April 29, 2022
Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increasing popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's targeted at second language learners. This ...
Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese IV: Simple Sentence, Compound Sentence, and Discourse
1st Edition
By Liu Yuehua, Pan Wenyu, Gu Wei
April 28, 2022
Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increased popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's targeted at second language learners. This ...
A Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese
1st Edition
By Bojiang Zhang, Mei Fang
December 13, 2021
The functional perspective on Chinese syntax has yielded various new achievements since its introduction to Chinese linguistics in the 1980s. This two-volume set is one of the earliest and most influential works to study the Chinese language using functional grammar. With local Beijing ...
Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese I: Information Structure and Word Ordering Selection
1st Edition
By Bojiang Zhang, Mei Fang
December 13, 2021
The functional perspective on Chinese syntax has yielded various new achievements since its introduction to Chinese linguistics in the 1980s.This two-volume book is one of the earliest and most influential works to study the Chinese language using functional grammar. With local Beijing vernacular (...
Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese II: Reference and Grammatical Category
1st Edition
By Bojiang Zhang, Mei Fang
December 13, 2021
The functional perspective on Chinese syntax has yielded various new achievements since its introduction to Chinese linguistics in the 1980s.This two-volume book is one of the earliest and most influential works to study the Chinese language using functional grammar. With local Beijing vernacular (...
Early Language Acquisition of Mandarin-Speaking Children
1st Edition
By Yunqiu Zhang
August 02, 2021
Compared with other subdisciplines in Chinese linguistics, children’s language acquisition is a significant field with relatively limited achievements. Based on data from a dynamic and developmental corpus, this book is a comprehensive exploration of the early development of Chinese-speaking ...