A Linguistic Comparison of Chinese and English Structural, functional, and typological perspectives ISBN:9789027232106
学術書籍 言語学 (John Benjaminsシリーズリスト) Studies in Language Companion Series
A Linguistic Comparison of Chinese and English: Structural, functional, and typological perspectives
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The book examines similarities and differences between Chinese and English from structural, functional, and typological perspectives. The linguistic comparison undertaken covers various aspects of the two languages, including, for example, typological features, the phonological system, the writing system, morphological structure, syntactic structure, and information structure. The book often relates the comparison of the two languages to linguistic typology and language universals. Moreover, the conceptions of some of the linguistic notions (e.g. “word,” “subject,” and “(im)perfective”) touched upon in this work have theoretical implications. This book is intended for researchers, instructors, and students who are interested in language comparison and linguistic typology in general and/or in the comparison of Chinese and English in particular. It can be used both as a reference and as a textbook.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–5
Chapter 2. Typological features of Chinese and English | pp. 6–36
Chapter 3. Phonemic inventory, tone, and intonation | pp. 37–62
Chapter 4. Syllable structure and stress | pp. 63–86
Chapter 5. Writing system | pp. 87–138
Chapter 6. Notion of “word” and word classes | pp. 139–172
Chapter 7. Numeral classifiers and measure words | pp. 173–191
Chapter 8. Word structure and word formation | pp. 192–235
Chapter 9. Tense and viewpoint aspect | pp. 236–267
Chapter 10. Subject, topic, subject prominence, and topic prominence | pp. 268–294
Chapter 11. Zero anaphora | pp. 295–319
Chapter 12. Information structure | pp. 320–347
Chapter 13. Phrase structure and word order | pp. 348–364
Chapter 14. Conclusions | pp. 365–369