Chinese text grammar

Author: Qu Chengxi
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book takes chapters as the longitude and functions as the latitude, integrating the entire content, with the main purpose being to elaborate on the relationships and expressions between clauses. The research feature of this book is that for each form, it first examines its core semantics or function, then seeks its derived various interpretations. The book primarily addresses the following issues: the textual function of aspect markers, the role of modal adverbs in the text, the analysis of terminal function words, the perspective of information structure, the relationship between subordinate structures and foreground/background, the contribution of anaphors to textual structure, the prototype of topic and the definition of Chinese topic, and the similarities and differences between topic chains and "Chinese sentences." Finally, based on the results of the above discussions, a more precise and specific definition of "Chinese sentence" is formulated in concrete terms. This book takes chapters as the longitude and functions as the latitude, integrating the entire content, with the main purpose being to elaborate on the relationships and expressions between clauses. The research feature of this book is that for each form, it first examines its core semantics or function, then seeks its derived various interpretations. The book primarily addresses the following issues: the textual function of aspect markers, the role of modal adverbs in the text, the analysis of terminal function words, the perspective of information structure, the relationship between subordinate structures and foreground/background, the contribution of anaphors to textual structure, the prototype of topic and the definition of Chinese topic, and the similarities and differences between topic chains and "Chinese sentences." Finally, based on the results of the above discussions, a more precise and specific definition of "Chinese sentence" is formulated in concrete terms.