Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference GrammarThis reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of Mandarin Chinese, the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations. |
Contents
I | 1 |
II | 2 |
III | 3 |
IV | 10 |
V | 13 |
VI | 15 |
VII | 16 |
VIII | 28 |
L | 430 |
LI | 438 |
LII | 440 |
LIII | 442 |
LIV | 447 |
LV | 451 |
LVI | 463 |
LVII | 465 |
IX | 45 |
X | 85 |
XI | 103 |
XII | 139 |
XIII | 172 |
XIV | 181 |
XV | 182 |
XVI | 184 |
XVII | 185 |
XVIII | 217 |
XIX | 226 |
XX | 232 |
XXI | 236 |
XXII | 238 |
XXIII | 300 |
XXIV | 307 |
XXV | 311 |
XXVI | 313 |
XXVII | 317 |
XXVIII | 319 |
XXIX | 320 |
XXX | 322 |
XXXI | 340 |
XXXII | 349 |
XXXIII | 352 |
XXXIV | 356 |
XXXV | 367 |
XXXVI | 370 |
XXXVII | 374 |
XXXVIII | 375 |
XXXIX | 377 |
XL | 379 |
XLI | 383 |
XLII | 385 |
XLIII | 388 |
XLIV | 390 |
XLV | 409 |
XLVI | 415 |
XLVII | 417 |
XLVIII | 421 |
XLIX | 428 |
LVIII | 466 |
LIX | 480 |
LX | 482 |
LXII | 492 |
LXIII | 493 |
LXIV | 503 |
LXV | 505 |
LXVI | 506 |
LXVII | 509 |
LXVIII | 510 |
LXIX | 517 |
LXX | 520 |
LXXI | 522 |
LXXII | 531 |
LXXIII | 546 |
LXXIV | 547 |
LXXV | 548 |
LXXVI | 554 |
LXXVII | 557 |
LXXVIII | 564 |
LXXIX | 571 |
LXXX | 575 |
LXXXI | 576 |
LXXXII | 579 |
LXXXIII | 587 |
LXXXIV | 594 |
LXXXV | 595 |
LXXXVI | 598 |
LXXXVII | 607 |
LXXXVIII | 611 |
LXXXIX | 620 |
XC | 623 |
XCI | 628 |
XCII | 631 |
XCIII | 632 |
XCIV | 651 |
XCV | 657 |
XCVI | 662 |
XCVII | 675 |
Other editions - View all
Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar Charles N. Li,Sandra A. Thompson Limited preview - 1981 |
Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar Charles N. Li,Sandra A. Thompson Limited preview - 1989 |
Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar Charles N. Li,Sandra A. Thompson No preview available - 1989 |
Common terms and phrases
3sg BA A-not-A question adjectives adverbs aspect marker auxiliary verb bă construction bèi bié chapter Chinese chū context copula coverb CRS S/He current relevance dào delimitative aspect direct object discussion dōu drink duì durative aspect event example function gěi hái háishi hão hẽ head noun hearer hěn him/her huà huì indirect jiào kāi kàn kuài lái language liăng Lisi locative phrase mãi Mandarin meaning méi méi(you morphemes negation negative particle nèi néng nominalization noun phrase occur pão perfective aspect person PFV yi PFV/CRS postverbal preverbal pronoun qián qing qù go reduplicated refer relative clause rén semantic sentence sentence-final serial verb construction shang shénme shì shū shuì shuō signal speaker suffix syllable tā 3sg tāmen topic transitive verb verb phrase verb-object compounds women words xià xiě xihuān yào zài Zhangsan zhèi zuò