Jin Chinese Grammar II

This book is the second volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect in Northern Shaanxi Province in China, with a focus on six grammatical features of the dialect.

Xing Xiangdong is a professor in the College of Arts at Shaanxi Normal University, China. His research and work focus on Chinese dialects, especially dialects of Northwestern China.

1. Subjunctive Mood 2. Means of Expressions of Complex Sentence Relationships 3. Embedded Sentence Patterns: Ba-construction combined with Jiao-construction 4. A-not-A Questions 5. The Formation of Imperative Modal Particle "Zhe" in Modern Chinese Dialects 6. Sound Variation of Grammatical Constituents 7. Strengthening Diachronic Comparative Study on Chinese Dialectal Grammar