Modern Chinese Complex Sentences III

Adversative Type

XING Fuyi (Professor, School of Foreign Languages, CCNU, China), Yuhong Wang, Honggen Yi

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Routledge
26 August 2024

Grammar, syntax; Literature: history & criticism

Series: Chinese Linguistics

"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."

By: XING Fuyi (Professor School of Foreign Languages CCNU China)
Other: Yuhong Wang, Honggen Yi
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9781032448534
ISBN 10: 1032448539
Series: Chinese Linguistics
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

XING Fuyi is a renowned Chinese linguist and a senior professor at Central China Normal University. He has been devoted to the studies of modern Chinese grammar and has initiated the clause-pivotal approach for modern Chinese grammar studies. His other major publications include Modern Chinese Grammar: A Clause-Pivot Approach and Three Hundred Qs & As about Chinese Grammar.