Modern Chinese Grammar IV

This four-volume set is an English translation for the first time of a Chinese linguistics classic on modern Chinese grammar by WANG Li, one of the most distinguished Chinese linguists.

WANG Li (1900-1986) has been widely recognized as one of the founders of modern linguistics in China. He led extensive research on Chinese linguistics, covering areas such as phonetics, phonology, grammar, lexicography, historical linguistics and dialectal studies.

Introduction Part I Special forms 1. Reduplicated syllable, reduplicated word and opposite term 2. Incorporation, agglutination and idiom 3. Onomatopoeia and scene-painting 4. Repetition 5. Continuation and omission 6. Inversion and parenthesis 7. Interjection of emotion and interjection of meaning Part II Europeanized grammar 8. Coinage of disyllabic words 9. Increase in subject and copula 10. Extension of sentence length 11. Europeanization of potential form, passive form and marker 12. Europeanization of connective constituent 13. New methods of substitution and numeration