Modern Chinese Complex Sentences I

This book is the first volume of a four-volume set on modern Chinese complex sentences, with a focus on the overall characteristics and the casual complex sentences in particular.

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.

Part I: Overview 1. Complex sentences and classifications 2. Connectives in complex sentences 3. Tripartite classification of Chinese complex sentences Part II: Complex sentences of the causal type and relevant forms 4. "y-nwèi p, süy- q" and the relevant forms 5. "y-n p, y-n q" in Dream of the Red Chamber 6. "rúgü p, jiù q" and relevant forms 7. "zh-y-u p, cái q" and relevant forms 8. "zh-yào p, jiù q" and "rúgü p, jiù q" 9. "yàobùshì p, jiù q" 10. "p, y-biàn q" and relevant forms 11. "y-qí p, bùrú q"