A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese focuses on the relationships between clauses in Mandarin Chinese in the functional framework. Underlying these relationships are notions like modality, presupposition, topicality, and information structure, encoded by such devices as conjunction, aspect, topic, sentence-particles and subordination. Chauncey Chu devotes a chapter to each of these devices, with a view to discovering their contribution to the coherent organization of Chinese discourse. These devices are finally integrated into a network, culminating in a proposal of the discourse sentence (represented by SENTENCE) to replace the syntactically and/or semantically defined traditional sentence. The organization of SENTENCES into paragraphs also is discussed in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory.
| ISBN: | 9780820438900 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 1998 |
| Author: | Chauncey Chenghsi Chu |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 484 pages |
| Series: | Berkeley Models of Grammars |
| Genres: |
Language: history and general works Grammar, syntax and morphology |
A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese focuses on the relationships between clauses in Mandarin Chinese in the functional framework. Underlying these relationships are notions like modality, presupposition, topicality, and information structure, encoded by such devices as conjunction, aspect, topic, sentence-particles and subordination. Chauncey Chu devotes a chapter to each of these devices, with a view to discovering their contribution to the coherent organization of Chinese discourse. These devices are finally integrated into a network, culminating in a proposal of the discourse sentence (represented by SENTENCE) to replace the syntactically and/or semantically defined traditional sentence. The organization of SENTENCES into paragraphs also is discussed in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory.
A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese features in the following genres: Language: history and general works, Grammar, syntax and morphology
A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese is available in Hardback
A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese was written by Chauncey Chenghsi Chu and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese has 484 pages
Yes it is part of Berkeley Models of Grammars series