Increments in Mandarin Chinese

Looking at everyday Mandarin Chinese conversations, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the practices used in producing Chinese increments.

Ni-Eng Lim is an assistant professor in Chinese and Linguistics in the School of Humanities at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), for his doctoral study in applied linguistics. Researching primarily in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, his interests fall broadly under Chinese interactional linguistics and various institutional talk.

1. Introduction 2. Classificatory system and crosslinguistic typologies 3. Resources for indexing continuations in Chinese 4. Interactional work performed by Chinese increments 5. A dynamic view of increments 6. A dynamic view of increments