Research on Chinese Numerical Problems

Author: Guo Pan
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book is a linguistic academic work on Chinese numeral words. It focuses on number-related issues in linguistics, covering both ancient and modern times, with a stronger emphasis on the ancient. In terms of scope, based on the internal structure of linguistics and the completeness of previous and contemporary research, it primarily defines three levels: grammar, vocabulary, and pragmatics. In terms of methodology, it explores topics in a thematic manner. The criteria for selecting topics are the significance of existing problems, the research value, and the representativeness. According to the research scope, the book is divided into four chapters: Research on Number-Related Issues at the Grammatical Level, Research on Number-Related Issues at the Lexical Level, and Research on Number-Related Issues at the Pragmatic Level. The appendix is an extension and supplement of the first three chapters. The first three chapters are the main body of the book. Each chapter is broadly divided into two sections: one for reviewing previous and contemporary research, and one for thematic research. The order of the thematic sections is based on the size of grammatical units and the relationships between the whole and the parts.