Cognitive Research on the Category of Modern Chinese Tools

Author: Xu Mofan
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This book is a specialized study on the system of semantic categories in modern Chinese. It is divided into seven chapters, primarily discussing cognitive issues related to the instrumental category in Chinese. Based on the approach of "exploring grammatical forms from grammatical meaning," the author conducts an in-depth investigation into the cognitive characteristics, semantic connotations, and grammatical manifestations of the instrumental category in Chinese, building upon the preliminary framework of the Chinese semantic category system. The book references research findings from cognitive psychology to illustrate the features of human instrumental tools and explain certain linguistic phenomena that previous scholars could not account for, arriving at conclusions that are convincingly supported.