A Preliminary Exploration of Methodology in Chinese Studies

Author: Xu Tongqiang
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This book includes 17 articles written by the author over the past 20 years, which generally reflect the author's exploration in building linguistic theories by combining Western linguistic theories, methods, and Chinese language research. The 17 articles are divided into 5 groups:
(1) 1 article, which serves as the guiding ideology for the author's research on linguistic theories.
(2) 4 articles, primarily discussing the relationship between linguistic variation and the study of linguistic theories and the history of language.
(3) 4 articles, using the aforementioned principles to study the syllable structure of Chinese.
(4) 7 articles, focusing on the study of Chinese semantic syntax.
(5) 1 article, studying vocabulary.
Groups (4) and (5) are language theories conducted with the "character" as the basic structural unit of Chinese, known as the "character-based theory."