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Parts of Speech in Mandarin

The State of the Art

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Candice Chi-Hang Cheung

    1. Dept of Chinese & Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ,, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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  • Presents an in-depth treatment of the nine major parts of speech in Mandarin
  • Highlights Mandarin-English parallels
  • Provides extensive examples, given in both traditional Chinese characters and Pinyin
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
    Pages 1-5

  3. Categories Found in Mandarin and the Indo-European Languages

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Nouns

      • Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
      Pages 9-20

    3. Verbs

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      Pages 21-43

    4. Adjectives

      • Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
      Pages 45-62

    5. Prepositions

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      Pages 63-72

    6. Adverbs

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      Pages 73-91

    7. Conjunctions

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      Pages 93-102

  4. Categories Uniquely Available in Mandarin

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Classifiers

      • Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
      Pages 105-119

    3. Localizers

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      Pages 121-132

    4. Sentence-final Particles

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      Pages 133-143

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 145-146
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About this book

This book offers a comprehensive survey of the major parts of speech in Mandarin. Seeking to identify the sets of universal and language-specific categories, it compares the range of categories available in Mandarin and the Indo-European languages and establishes six universal categories – nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions – and three language-specific ones, namely classifiers, localizers and sentence-final particles. Incorporating insights from recent research findings and the diachronic development of the language, the book sheds new light on the factors that contribute to the long-standing debate on the categorical status of adjectives, prepositions and localizers in the extant literature. Bringing together the earlier general descriptions and the latest advances, it is broadly accessible to non-native and native speakers of the language and offers an ideal reference source for all students and scholars who are interested in studying the parts of speech in Mandarin.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept of Chinese & Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ,, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Candice Chi-Hang Cheung

About the author

Candice Chi-Hang Cheung is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests lie in formal syntax, syntax–semantics interface, syntax–information structure interface, and parametric syntax with special focus on Cantonese, English, Mandarin  and minority languages spoken in mainland China. She has published articles in a number of linguistic journals, such as the Journal of East Asian Linguistics and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Parts of Speech in Mandarin

  • Book Subtitle: The State of the Art

  • Authors: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0398-1

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0396-7Published: 23 June 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9151-3Published: 07 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0398-1Published: 15 June 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 146

  • Topics: Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics

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