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	Chinese script and language
		Spoken Chinese: Cantonese, Dungan, Gan, Hakka, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Teochew and Xiang
		The earliest recognisable examples of written Chinese date from 1500-950 BC (Shang dynasty) and were inscribed on ox scapulae and turtle shells - "oracle bones".
		Chinese characters, with some modifications, are also used in written Japanese and Korean, and were once used to write Vietnamese.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/chinese.htm (1125 words)

	Chinese Language - MSN Encarta
		Chinese is also spoken by large emigrant communities, such as those in Southeast Asia, North and South America, and the Hawaiian Islands.
		As the dominant language of East Asia, Chinese has greatly influenced the writing systems and vocabularies of neighboring languages not related to it by origin, such as the Japanese language, the Korean language, and the Vietnamese language.
		Besides a core vocabulary and sounds, Chinese and many related languages share features that distinguish them from most Western languages: They have even less inflection than the English language and are tonal.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565543/Chinese_Language.html (740 words)

	Adjective - ExampleProblems.com
		In English, an adjectival phrase may occur as a postmodifier to a noun (a bin full of toys), or as a predicate to a verb (the bin is full of toys).
		A predicative adjective is one which functions as the predicate, ie it is linked with the noun by a verb, often the copula (to be).
		Adjectives are sometimes used in place of nouns, as in many of the Beatitudes (e.g.
	www.exampleproblems.com /wiki/index.php/Adjective (1302 words)

	Chinese adjectives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Adjectives in Chinese (形容词 xíng róng cí) are somewhat different from those in English in that they can be used as verbs (for example 天黑了 tiān hēi le "The sky has darkened") and thus linguists sometimes prefer to use the terms static or stative verb to describe them.
		When describing a noun with an adjective composed of multiple characters, 的 de is used between the adjective and noun (for example 高兴
		When describing a subject with most adjectives in Chinese the verb "to be" is not required - in fact its use is grammatically incorrect (她漂亮 tā piào liang "she is beautiful" not 她是漂亮 tā shì piào liang).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_adjectives (327 words)

	adjectives list page - a list of all adjectives
		Similarly, possessive adjectives, such as his or her, are sometimes called determinative possessive pronouns, and demonstrative adjectives, such as this or that, determinative demonstratives.
		In a sentence, an adjective is used in either an attributive or a predicative manner.
		"Adjectives of relation" are adjectives formed from a noun, with the general meaning "of, relating to or like (the noun)" (the precise range of meanings, and shades of meaning, varies case by case).
	www.theramonitor.com /adjectives_list.html (1731 words)

	BRJ Online
		The art of translating Chinese documents into English is thus based on the ability of the translator to identify set phrases, and to be able to reconstruct the appropriate cultural connotation of the metaphor or proverbial figure based on prior cultural knowledge.
		Furthermore, graduate American students perceived Chinese EFL writing as indirect and inductive, because topics were developed in an implicit manner (in terms of what they were not), and objectives and conclusions were never presented clearly in their narratives.
		That is, Chinese readers conceptualized the task in a different manner because they perceive that they need to be stimulated by the writer to contemplate issues, which they may not have previously considered, and develop their own interpretation of Chinese rhetoric.
	brj.asu.edu /v254/articles/art11.html (9233 words)

	Grammar - Adjectives - ChinesePod
		Adjectives are used to describe the condition of a person, thing, behavior, etc. Typical examples include: 大, 小, 多, 少, 认真, 漂亮, 冰冷, 雪白.
		Chinese adjectives can be classified as general adjectives or as non-predicate adjectives.
		General adjectives can not only serve as a sentence predicate, but also as an attributive, an adverbial, or a complement.
	chinesepod.com /resources/grammar/parts-of-speech/adjectives (122 words)

	Grammaticalization and Linguistic Theory
		The existence of languages in which adjectives show the same ordering behavior with respect to N as genitives suggests noun-like adjectives, which came into their position as genitive modifiers.
		In a language like Chinese, where "adjectives" are a subset of verbs, and adjectival modification thus a subspecies of relative clause, we would expect adjectives and relative clauses to pattern together, as they do.
		This suggests a history for the modern adjective construction in which the -po form is a nominalization, of which the suffix is then the head.
	www.uoregon.edu /~delancey/papers/glt.html (5364 words)

	Chinese grammar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinese grammar—here referring to that of Standard Mandarin—shares a similar system of grammar with the many language varieties or dialects of the Chinese language, different from those employed by other language families, and comparable to the similar features found within, for instance, the Slavic languages or Semitic languages.
		Chinese is considered to be a topic-prominent language, where the topic of the sentence (defined as "old" information whereupon the sentence is based) takes precedence in the sentence.
		Chinese has a unique complement of aspects: for example, there are two perfectives, 了 (-le) and 過/过 (-guo) which subtly differ in meaning.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_grammar (2327 words)

	adjectives Resources \| adjectives, list of adjectives
		In English, an adjectival phrase may occur as a postmodifier to a noun (a bin full of toys), or as a predicate to a verb (the bin is full of toys and clothes).
		An attributive adjective is an adjective that qualifies or modifies a noun and that that precede the noun.
		"Adjectives of relation" are adjectives formed from a noun, with the general meaning "of, relating to or like (the noun)" (the precise range of meanings, and shades of meaning, varies case by case).
	www.skeysource.com /TopicDB12/adjectives.php (2140 words)

	FAQ's about UVM Chinese Language Program 常见问题
		Chinese, a non-alphabetical language, has about 60,000 Chinese characters which are words or are used to form words.
		Chinese is a melodious and artistic language, pleasant to listen to and nice to look at.
		Chinese sounds and grammar, compared with those of other languages, are easy to learn.
	www.uvm.edu /~chinese/faqs.htm (611 words)

	English Grammar: Adjectives (EnglishClub.com) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun.
		Adjectives can be used before a noun (I like Chinese food) or after certain verbs (It is hard).
		It is sometimes said that the adjective is the enemy of the noun.
	www.englishclub.com /grammar/adjectives.htm (113 words)

	Papers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A reanalysis of some of the data from the Chinese pseudo-scope manuscript, comparing them with data from Lin 2002 (Word file) and subsequent updates of that work (slated to appear in Linguistics and Philosophy).
		The portion on Chinese appears in the proceedings of HUMIT 2000.
		An attempt at a characterization of the semantics of verb reduplication in Mandarin Chinese, variously labeled as “tentative” (Chao 1968) and “delimitative” (Li and Thompson 1981), terms that may suggest a similarity between the usage of these reduplicated verbs and particular uses of (subclasses of) verbs in other languages.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/jk395/myweb/papers.htm (539 words)

	Chinese Dependency Syntax \| 洛基开放文化实验室
		Chinese is essentially a semantics-bound language, therefore, one can hardly expect to achieve much by syntactic analysis, which can only be based on forms, explicit forms (function words and word order) or implicit forms (word categories, subclasses and valencies).
		Adjectives in Chinese enjoy similar syntactic characteristics to intransitive verbs, they are both often used as predicate.
		Besides, a 2-syllable adjective AB may duplicate itself in the way AABB (for emphasis, such duplication is one of the ways to form so-called vivified adjective), but a similar verb only in the way ABAB (to show the shortness of the action).
	rl.rockiestech.com /node/376 (5655 words)

	Learn Chinese Grammar
		Fortunately for Chinese learners, Chinese grammar is a relatively straightforward affair.
		Chinese grammar is less complicated than English grammar.
		Note: In Chinese, there are special measure words that precede nouns to indicate number.
	www.living-chinese-symbols.com /chinese-grammar.html (553 words)

	EthnoMed: Chinese Language Profile
		The Chinese language is the oldest written language in the world with at least six thousand years of history.
		Traditional or classical Chinese characters is taught and used by Chinese in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Korea, Japan, and elsewhere.
		Examples of Chinese newspapers distributed in the United States that use traditional Chinese characters is "Ming Pao" or "Sing Tao" newspapers.
	ethnomed.org /ethnomed/cultures/chinese/chin_lang.html (2151 words)

	Foibles And Follies Of The English Language: Part 7 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An ‘ethnonym’ is a noun or adjective denoting the people of a given ethnic group.
		Adjectives of the latter group all have regular plurals: Americans, Mexicans, Brazilians, Germans and Greeks.
		Words that end in ‘-ese’ may be either plural nouns, singular nouns or adjectives: a Chinese, the Chinese, Chinese people.
	www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/06dec/article007.html (635 words)

	Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
		In some Chinese grammar books, some Chinese adjectives are called stative verbs, because the adjective indicates the state of the subject, and the Chinese equivalent of the verb be is not used.
		In the Chinese sentence Yuēhàn xiào le 约翰笑了, Yuēhàn 约翰 is similarly the subject of the verb xiào le 笑了, and in the sentence Yuēhàn hěn gāo 约翰很高, Yuēhàn 约翰 is the subject of hěn gāo 很高.
		The superlative is the form of the adjective or adverb which is used to express the highest or lowest degree.
	www.oxfordlanguagedictionaries.com /Public/PublicResources.html?direction=b-zh-en&sp=S/oldo/resources/zh/glossary-grammar-zh.xml (2122 words)

	Predicate Adjectives
		Chinese uses two different forms, one to link nouns to nouns and a second form to link nouns to adjectives.
		These adjectives function in this form both as descriptors and as the "to be" verb as needed.
		While it can modify the adjective, adding the idea of "very" to the meaning, it can also simply act as a link between noun and adjective without acting as a modifier.
	www.chinese-lessons.com /mandarin/grammarL3Hen.htm (304 words)

	Korean-Chinese Bilingual Code-Switching
		Therefore, with regard to syntactic features, Korean and Chinese have quite different surface word order; while in terms of morphological features, undeniably there is vast gulf in morphoogical complexity between Chinese and Korean, which occupy two extremes respectively in a continuum with various degrees of inflectional richness.
		Another driving force for this study is that despite the fact that both Korean and Chinese are major language groups and there are almost 2.5 million Korean-Chinese bilingual population members currently residing in China, no CS research to date, at least to my knowledge, has ever been done for Korean –Chinese bilinguals.
		Nor does Chinese have case markers to signal the grammatical function the noun has in the sentence, such as subject, direct object, indirect object, and so on.
	www.msu.edu /~machunhu/mathesis.htm (3523 words)

	The Vietnamese Language
		In Chinese, there's overlap between adjectives and verbs, but Vietnamese definitely has a verb for "to be", which is "là".
		The one that does sounds like Chinese sounds like southern Chinese, to the point where people mistake the letter "n" and the letter "l" (originally, both letters were short, pronounced with the tip of the tongue behind the upper teeth, so it's not that far-fetched that they should be seen as similar).
		Chinese writing is composed of 214 radicals (components) which have to do with the meaning of the word.
	www.travelogues.net /Vietnam_vanilla/essay_vietnamese_language.htm (1667 words)

	Chinese
		The Chinese writing on the oracle bones had already developed many of the features which it still possesses and could be said to be a mature writing system, or well on the way to becoming one.
		Modern standard written Chinese is loosely based on the speech of educated Mandarin-speakers in northern China.
		Chinese can be written in vertical columns from right to left or horizontally from left to right.
	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /scad/archivedwebsites/chinesescript.htm (614 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		The Chinese associate each year of a 12-year cycle with an animal, and they refer to the years as "the year of the dragon," "the year of the ox," and so forth.
		Remind them that the Chinese would choose animals that lived in their country and with which they were familiar.
		Draw their attention to the Chinese character, which represents the name of the animal at the end of each description.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=344 (2330 words)

	Beijing stamps out poor English - eg "Racist Park" (reddit.com)
		Chinese is guess work, it's easy to translate into Chinese but god help you to translate out of it.
		Especially when their language doesn't have a single adjective, which both of them are.
		I think the only things Chinese doesn't have are articles, tenses of verbs, and plural forms of nouns.
	reddit.com /info/m8di/comments (622 words)

	Meetings
		To ask a yes/no question in Chinese, simply add the word ma to the end of a statement and speak with a rising tone as in English.
		However, in Chinese, some adjectives can incorporate the verb to be and they become verb-adjectives.
		For example, the word lăo is an adjective when it means ‘old’ but is a verb-adjective when it means ‘to be old’.
	members.fortunecity.com /headfirst2002/chinese/Meetings/meetings.html (858 words)

	Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
		The Chinese particle de 的 is very common - it occurs frequently in the example sentences in this dictionary, for example.
		It may be used to indicate a modifying word or phrase, or to turn an adjective into a noun.
		Since Chinese is not an inﬂected language, tense, aspect and mood are indicated by other means, notably through particles le 了, guo 过, ne 呢, zhe 着, etc, and auxiliary verbs/adverbs xiǎng 想, huì 会, zhèngzài 正在, etc. Look up these words on the Chinese-English side of the dictionary for more information.
	www.oxfordlanguagedictionaries.com /Public/PublicResources.html?direction=b-zh-en&sp=S/oldo/resources/zh/dictKnowHow_exercises_zh.html (565 words)

	Kanji
		Kanji, one of the three scripts used in the Japanese language, are Chinese characters, which were first introduced to Japan in the 5th century via Korea.
		Consequently, most kanji can still be pronounced in at least two ways, a Chinese (on yomi) and a Japanese (kun yomi) way, which considerably further complicates the study of the Japanese language.
		But unlike the Chinese language, Japanese cannot be written entirely in kanji.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2046.html (316 words)

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