- 344 pages
- English
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About this book
This book is the third volume of a four-volume set on modern Chinese complex sentences, with a focus on adversative complex sentences and relevant forms.
Complex sentences in modern Chinese are unique in formation and meaning. The author proposes a tripartite classification of Chinese complex sentences according to the semantic relationships between the clauses, i.e., coordinate, causal, and adversative. This volume analyzes representative forms of adversative type, including the prototype, the clauses linked by connectives referring to "otherwise", the combinations of clause structures and certain adversative conjunctions or linking adverbs indicating an adversative relationship, the adversative factors and relationship in two typical progressive sentences, factive sentences, and concessive forms. It also discusses the adversative type in the broad sense, classifying the different forms and analyzing the semantic meaning, pragmatic value, and implications for research and language teaching.
The book will be a useful reference for scholars and learners in Chinese grammar and language information processing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Diagrams
- Tables
- 1 “p, dànshì q” and relevant forms
- 2 “p, fǒuzé q” and relevant forms
- 3 Occurrence of dàn or its synonym in “jì p, yòu q” and relevant forms
- 4 Occurrence of dàn or its synonym in “wúlùn p, dōu q”
- 5 Occurrence of què in “jìrán p, jiù q”
- 6 Occurrence of què in “rúguǒ shuō p, nàme q”
- 7 Occurrence of què in “yuè p, yuè q”
- 8 “bùdàn bù p, fǎn’ér q” and its adversative relationship
- 9 Progressive gèng-sentences and adversative gèng-sentences
- 10 Factive “jíshǐ p, yě q”
- 11 Investigation into concessive complex sentence forms
- 12 Outline of adversative sentence forms
- Index