Modern Chinese Grammar and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

Author: Xiao Xiqiang
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: The author has many years of experience in teaching and researching Chinese as a second language. This book focuses on the difficulties faced by foreign students in learning Chinese and conducts research from both the perspective of Chinese linguistics and the perspective of language acquisition. It analyzes commonly concerned grammatical issues from different angles to reveal the unique structural patterns of Chinese and the learning challenges for foreign students. Some of the conclusions in this book are also highly applicable to Chinese language information processing in computers. The book employs an inductive-deductive approach, guided by the theory of three planes, to discuss the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic functions of adverbs in modern Chinese, as well as the ambiguity issues of some special sentence patterns.