Chinese : an essential grammar /: an essential grammar. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yip Po-Ching, Don Rimmington.
• Authors: Yip, Po-ching, 1935-; Rimmington, Don
• Contents: Contents Preface Introduction The Chinese language Mandarin pronunciation The Chinese vocabulary Part I Nouns Introduction 1 Nouns 1.1 Noun features 1.2 Proper nouns 1.3 Common nouns 1.3.1 The plural suffix -men 1.3.2 Nouns and definite or indefinite reference 1.4 Nouns and conjunctions 1.5 Common nouns: countability 2 Numerals and nouns 2.1 Cardinal numbers 2.1.1 Two forms of the number two 2.2 Ordinal numbers 2.3 ‘Half’ 2.4 Fractions, percentages, decimals, multiples and ‘every’ 2.5 Approximation 3 Measures for nouns 3.1 Measures and gè 3.2 Other measure words 3.3 Abstract nouns 3.4 Material nouns 3.5 Collective nouns 3.6 Relationship between measures and nouns 4 Pronouns 4.1 Personal pronouns 4.2 Possessive pronouns 4.3 Demonstrative pronouns 4.4 Interrogative pronouns 4.5 Other pronouns 4.6 Pronouns and conjunctions 5 Adjectives and attributives 5.1 Attributives 5.2 Adjectives as attributives 5.2.1 Monosyllabic adjectives 5.2.2 Polysyllabic adjectives and de 5.2.3 Disyllabic adjectives and de 5.3 Nominal attributives 5.3.1 Nominal attributives and de 5.4 Prepositional and postpositional phrases as attributives 5.5 Verbal phrases or clauses as attributives 5.6 The order of sequential attributives 5.7 Demonstrative and numeral phrases with other attributives 5.8 Possessive pronoun and other attributives 5.9 Ér between adjectives 5.10 Omission of the noun following an attributive 5.11 Attributives in word-formation Part II Verbs Introduction 6 Adjectival and nominal predicates; the verb shì 6.1 Adjectival predicates 6.2 Adjectival predicates and the verb ‘to be’ 6.2.1 Adjectival predicates and degree adverbs 6.2.2 Adjectival predicates in the negative 6.2.3 Adjectival predicates followed by verbs 6.3 Non-gradable adjectives as attributives 6.3.1 Attributives of shape, colour or material 6.4 Nominal and pronominal predicates 6.4.1 Verbs resembling shì 6.4.2 Nominal predicates without a copula 6.5 The copula shì in its negative form 7 The verb yǒu ; comparisons 7.1 The functions of yǒu 7.1.1 Yǒu indicating possession 7.1.2 Měi as negative of yǒu 7.1.3 Yǒu indicating change or development 7.1.4 Yǒu forming idiomatic expressions 7.1.5 Yǒu introducing adjectival predicates 7.2 Comparison 7.2.1 Emphatic or specific comparison 7.2.2 Negative comparison 7.2.3 Comparison: equivalence or similarity 7.3 Comparatives and superlatives 8 Verbs and aspect markers 8.1 Action, state and dative verbs 8.2 Action verbs 8.3 Aspect markers 8.3.1 Le 8.3.2 Guo 8.3.3 Zài 8.3.4 Zhe 8.4 State verb 8.5 Dative verbs 8.5.1 Dative verbs relating to spoken activity 8.5.2 Dative verbs and aspect markers 8.6 Causative verbs 8.7 Imperatives 8.7.1 Polite requests 8.7.2 Imperatives and aspect markers 9 Motion verbs and direction indicators 9.1 Motion verbs and simple direction indicators 9.2 Motion verbs and compound direction indicators 9.3 Motion verbs with metaphorical meaning 9.4 Direction indicators with specific meanings 10 Verbs and time 10.1 Time expressions 10.2 Point of time expressions 10.2.1 Detailed time expressions 10.3 Point-of-time expressions incorporating verbal phrases 10.4 Imprecise points of time 10.5 Indefinite points of time 10.6 Frequency expressions with měi 10.7 Time expressions in existence sentences 10.7.1 Time expressions in emergence or disappearance sentences 11 Verbs and location 11.1 Location expressions 11.2 Zài and postpositional phrases 11.2.1 Disyllabic postpositions 11.2.2 Disyllabic postpositions as location pronouns 11.3 Simple location sentences 11.4 Location phrases modifying main verbs 11.5 Location phrases in existence sentences 11.5.1 Shì in existence sentences 11.5.2 Zhe in existence sentences 11.6 Le in emergence or disappearance sentences 11.7 Order of sequence of time and location phrases 12 Verbs: duration and frequency 12.1 Duration expressions 12.1.1 Duration expressions and noun objects 12.1.2 Repetition of the verb in a noun-object-duration structure 12.1.3 Duration expressions and pronoun objects 12.1.4 Duration expressions in dative construction 12.1.5 Duration expressions and definite reference 12.2 Brief duration 12.2.1 Brief duration and instrumental objects 12.3 Frequency expressions 13 Verbs and complements 13.1 Complements 13.2 Complements of result 13.3 Potential complements 13.3.1 Potential complements using direction indicators 13.3.2 Metaphorical meanings of potential complements 13.4 Complements of manner and of consequential state 13.4.1 Modification of complement of manner 13.4.2 Complement of consequential state 13.4.3 Complements of manner or consequential state with a ‘verb + object’ verb 13.4.4 Adjectival complements of manner in comparisons 13.4.5 Complement-of-manner comparison with a ‘verb + object’ verb 13.5 Complement of location or destination 13.6 Degree complements 14 Verbs and adverbials 14.1 Adverbials of manner 14.1.1 Monosyllabic adjectives as adverbials of manner 14.1.2 Adverbials of manner with marked verbs 14.1.3 Adverbials of manner with unmarked verbs 14.1.4 Monosyllabic adverbial modifiers without de 14.1.5 Particular types of adverbials of manner 14.2 Attitudinal adverbial expressions 14.3 Referential adverbs 14.4 Referential adverbs with negatives 14.5 Order of sequence of referential adverbs 14.6 Order of adverbials in sequence 15 Modal and similar verbs 15.1 Modal, attitudinal and intentional verbs 15.2 Modal verbs 15.2.1 Modal verbs and adverbs of degree 15.2.2 Modal verbs and comparison 15.3 Attitudinal verbs 15.3.1 Wàngle and jìde 15.3.2 Gāoxìng 15.4 Intentional verbs 15.4.1 Negation of intentional verbs Part III Sentences Introduction 16 Statements and the sentence particle le 16.1 Le as a sentence particle 16.2 Functions of sentence le 16.2.1 Summing-up function of le 16.2.2 Le as both sentence particle and aspect marker 16.3 Cases where sentence l
• Edition: Third edition
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 495.15; Chinese language -- Grammar; Chinese language -- Syntax; Chinese language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000345070; 9781000345032; 9781003037606
• Related ISBNs: 9780367480127; 9780367480134
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