Modern Chinese Complex Sentences IV

This book is the final volume of a four-volume set on modern Chinese complex sentences, assessing the key attributes, related sentence structures, and semantic and pragmatic relevance of complex sentences.

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.

1. Counter-constraints of complex sentence form on semantic relationships 2. Sentences containing type crossover markers 3. Distinctions and Confusion between Simple Sentences and Complex Sentences 4. "Attribute + Noun" Structure acting as a clause 5. "NP le" acting as a clause 6. Double-subject sentences related to complex sentences 7. Subject Ellipsis and Tacit Subject in Posterior Clause 8. sh--sentences with a tacit subject 9. Alternative Question Groups: Beyond the Scope of Complex Sentences (Case Study 1) 10. Alternative Question Group Introduced by a Co-referential Special Question: Beyond the Scope of Complex Sentences (Case Study 2)