Modern Chinese Complex Sentences III

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.

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.

Diagrams Tables 1. "p, dànshì q" and relevant forms 2. "p, f-uzé q" and relevant formats 3. Occurrence of dàn or its synonym in "jì p, yòu q" and relevant forms 4. Occurrence of dàn or its synonym in "wúlùn p, d-u q" 5. Occurrence of què in "jìrán p, jiù q" 6. Occurrence of què in "rúgu- shü p, nàme q" 7. Occurrence of què in "yuè p, yuè q" 8. "bùdàn bù p, f-n'ér q" and its adversative relationship 9. Progressive gèng-sentences and adversative gèng-sentences 10. Factive "jíshi p, y- q" 11. Investigation into concessive complex sentence forms 12. Outline of adversative sentence forms Index