1st Edition

Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese IV Simple Sentence, Compound Sentence, and Discourse

By Liu Yuehua, Pan Wenyu, Gu Wei Copyright 2021
292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increased popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's targeted at second language learners. This four-volume set is one of the earliest and most influential works of Chinese grammar, with a special focus... Read more

1 Subject-Predicate Sentence. 2 Special Sentences with Verb as Predicate. 3 "是...的" Sentence. 4 Interrogative Sentence, Rhetorical Sentence and Echo-question Sentence. 5 Imperative Sentence. 6 Structures of Comparison. 7 Non Subject-Predicate Sentence. 8 Types of Compound Sentences. 9 Subject of Compound Sentence and Conjunction Words. 10 Compressed Sentence. 11 Discourse.

Biography

Liu Yuehua (1937–2019) was a distinguished Chinese linguist, winner of the Walton Lifetime Achievement Award of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of USA, a professor at the Beijing Language and Culture University, and a leading author of the well-known Integrated Chinese textbook series. She also taught at Wellesley College, MIT, and Harvard University.

Pan Wenyu graduated from Peking University and taught Chinese as foreign language for more than 50 years. She specialized in Chinese grammar and teaching techniques.

Gu Wei (Zhao Shuhua) is a retired professor of the masters of teaching Chinese as a second language, Beijing Language and Culture University. She has authored 20 papers and is the co-author of The Study on Parts of Speech (1996).