Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Figures; Tables; Foreword to the Chinese Edition; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The questions that must be answered to explore Chinese parts of speech; 1.2 Difficulties in classifying Chinese parts of speech; 1.3 An overview of studies of Chinese parts of speech; 1.3.1 The formation and development of the framework of parts of speech; 1.3.2 Two core issues for studying Chinese parts of.speech; 1.3.2.1 The relationship between part of speech and syntactic constituent; 1.3.2.2 Criteria for classifying parts of speech
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1.3.3 The question of conversional.words1.3.4 Operational procedures for classifying parts of speech; 1.3.5 Other studies; 1.4 Outline of chapters; 1.5 The methods and main conclusions in the book; 1.5.1 Methods and main viewpoints in the book; 1.5.2 Overview of the part-of-speech system in the book; 2 Basic issues concerning classification of parts of speech; 2.1 Parsing of words; 2.1.1 The integrity principle; 2.1.1.1 Expansion criteria; 2.1.1.2 Integrity criteria; 2.1.2 The transparency principle; 2.1.2.1 Structural transparency criteria; 2.1.2.2 Functional transparency criteria
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2.1.2.3 Transparent meaning criteria2.1.3 The finite principle; 2.2 Internal hierarchies of modern Chinese; 2.3 The identity of words; 2.3.1 Individual words and generalization words; 2.3.2 Case studies; 2.3.2.1 Constituent meaning and structural meaning; 2.3.2.2 Lexical transfer reference and syntactic transfer reference; 2.3.2.3 Lexical transfer reference and lexical self-reference; 2.3.2.4 Word-formation, morphology and.syntax; 1. Verb reduplication; 2. Adjective reduplication; 3. State word reduplication; 4. Measure word reduplication; 5. Numeral reduplication; 6. Noun reduplication
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4 Essence and expressional functions of a part of speech4.1 The paradoxes of distribution nature theory; 4.1.1 Viewing distribution as the essence of a part of speech; 4.1.2 Paradoxes of the single-item distribution view; 4.1.3 Paradoxes of overall distribution; 4.1.4 Paradoxes of the partial distribution view; 4.1.5 Paradoxes of the similarity theory; 4.1.5.1 Paradoxes of the prototype theory; 4.1.5.2 The overall similarity clustering view; 4.1.6 Brief summary; 4.2 Bases of selectional restriction of a grammatical position on words; 4.3 Types and hierarchies of the expressional function
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What is the essence of a part of speech? Why is it difficult to classify parts of speech? What are the bases and criteria for classifying them? How should they be classified? In doing so, how should a conversional word be dealt with? How should nomonalization be treated? These are just some of the questions answered in this book. The classification of parts of speech in Chinese is a tough job due to the language's lack of morphological differences. Based on the analysis of nearly 40,000 Chinese characters, this book proposes that, essentially, a part of speech is not of distributional type and that its intrinsic basis is an expressional function and the semantic type. Essentially, large categories such as substantive words, predicate words and modification words are classes of words classified according to their expressional functions. Basic categories such as nouns, verbs and adjectives are classes that combine semantic types with syntactical functions. In classifying parts of speech, the book pays attention not to identifying a single distributive characteristic that is internally universal and externally exclusive but to clustering the grammatical functions that have the same classification value through the "reflection-representation "relationship among distribution, expressional function and semantic type (distribution reflects expressional function and semantic type, which are, in turn, represented as distribution), thereby identifying the classification criteria. It uses distributional compatibility and the correlation principle to analyze which distributional differences represent differences in parts of speech and which do not. In this way, grammatical functions that have equal classification values are collected into one equivalent function cluster, each of which represents one part of speech. The book uses four strategies to classify parts of speech, namely the homogeneity strategy, the homomorphical strategy, the priority homomorphical strategy and the consolidation strategy. It will be a valuable reference for Chinese linguistic researchers and students as well as Chinese learners.
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Modern Chinese parts of speech.
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Xian dai Han yu ci lei yan jiu.
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Chinese language-- Grammar.
Chinese language-- Parts of speech.
Chinese language-- Syntax.
Chinese language-- Grammar.
Chinese language-- Parts of speech.
Chinese language-- Syntax.
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