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This ground breaking study dispels the common belief that Chinese 'doesn't have words' but instead 'has characters'. Jerome Packard's book provides a comprehensive discussion of the linguistic and cognitive nature of Chinese words. It shows that Chinese, far from being 'morphologically impoverished', has a different morphological system because it selects different 'settings' on parameters shared by all languages. The analysis of Chinese word formation therefore enhances our understanding of word universals. Packard describes the intimate relationship between words and their components, including how the identities of Chinese morphemes are word-driven, and offers new insights into the evolution of morphemes based on Chinese data. Models are offered for how Chinese words are stored in the mental lexicon and processed in natural speech, showing that much of what native speakers know about words occurs innately in the form of a hard-wired, specifically linguistic 'program' in the brain.

Chinese language --- Morphology. --- Psycholinguistics --- Chinese languages --- Grammar --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Word formation.

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Graphic arts --- Writing --- Chinese languages --- Calligraphy, Chinese --- CDL --- 7.032.11

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The past quarter of a century has seen a surge in Chinese syntactic research that has produced a sizeable literature on the analysis of almost every construction in Mandarin Chinese. This guide to Chinese syntax analyses the majority of constructions in Chinese that have featured in theoretical linguistics in the past 25 years, using the authors' own analyses as well as existing or potential alternative treatments. A broad variety of topics are covered, including categories, argument structure, passives and anaphora. The discussion of each topic sums up the key research results and provides new points of departure for further research. This book will be invaluable both to students wanting to know more about the grammar of Chinese, and graduate students and theoretical linguists interested in the universal principles that underlie human languages.

Chinese languages --- Grammar --- Chinese language --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Chinese language - Syntax

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Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be said to have a consistent grammatical function. They are notorious for being extremely resistant to conventional syntactic and semantic analysis. The aim of this book is to seek a better understanding of utterance particles by concentrating analytical attention on three of them.

Chinese languages --- Pragmatics --- Dialectology --- Cantonese dialects --- Chinese language --- Yue dialects --- Yüeh dialects --- Particles. --- Dialects. --- Dialects --- Canton --- Chinois (langue) --- Canton (chine) --- Particules --- Langue

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This book is based on educational research conducted by the Confucius Institute for Innovation and Learning at Aalborg University. It aims to bridge the gap between the traditional methods of teaching Chinese and the student-centred learning method in a non-native context such as Denmark. The establishment of a conceptual framework for Task-Based PBL offers an alternative approach that encourages innovative teaching practices and promotes research-based teaching in language education. Empiric...

Chinese language --- Sino-Tibetan languages --- Indochinese languages --- Tibeto-Chinese languages --- Austroasiatic languages --- Mon-Khmer languages --- Tai-Kadai languages --- Study and teaching --- Study and teaching.