By Candice Chi-Hang Cheung

This ebook deals a entire survey of the main components of speech in Mandarin. trying to determine the units of common and language-specific different types, it compares the diversity of different types to be had in Mandarin and the Indo-European languages and establishes six common different types – nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions – and 3 language-specific ones, particularly classifiers, localizers and sentence-final debris. Incorporating insights from fresh learn findings and the diachronic improvement of the language, the publication sheds new mild at the elements that give a contribution to the long-standing debate at the express prestige of adjectives, prepositions and localizers within the extant literature. Bringing jointly the sooner common descriptions and the most recent advances, it truly is largely available to non-native and local audio system of the language and gives an excellent reference resource for all scholars and students who're drawn to learning the components of speech in Mandarin.

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