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	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.
		Serial verb construction is a basic feature of Chinese grammar, in which two or more verbs are concatenated together.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_grammar (2574 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Chinese grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文;; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.
		In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a pro-form that substitutes for a noun phrase.
		Chinese has a unique complement of aspects: for example, there are two perfectives, 了 (-le) and 过 [過] (-guo) which subtly differ in meaning.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chinese-grammar (1162 words)

	Vernacular Chinese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vernacular Chinese (Traditional Chinese: 白話; Simplified Chinese: 白话; Hanyu Pinyin: báihuà; Wade-Giles: paihua, literally meaning "plain language") is a style or register of the written Chinese language essentially modeled after the spoken language and associated with Standard Mandarin.
		Since the early twentieth century, Vernacular Chinese has been the standard of writing for speakers of all varieties of spoken Chinese throughout China, succeeding Classical Chinese, the former written standard used in China since the time of Confucius.
		During the Zhou Dynasty, Old Chinese was the spoken and written form of Chinese, and was used to write classical Chinese texts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vernacular_Chinese (618 words)

	Inverted Senteces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This relationship between Chinese grammar and the contextual environments is the focus of this study.
		Grammar is hence not to be understood as a pre-requisite for discourse, a prior possession attributable in identical form to both speaker and hearer.
		Having discussed the relationships among occurrences of inverted sentences in Beijing conversational discourse, their pragmatic motivations, and the emergent grammar, I have demonstrated that Chinese grammar is sensitive to pragmatic factors associated with communicative environments, including the speaker's communicative intents and discourse contexts.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~whu/China/invert.htm (8162 words)

	An Introduction to Chinese Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chinese characters are written in strokes such as dots, horizontal and vertical lines, etc, and the number of strokes in a given character can vary from one to over thirty.
		However, compared with their Western counterparts, native speakers of Chinese have a less clear concept of what a word is. This vagueness is partly caused by the fact that written Chinese does not mark word boundaries.
		Chinese is a good choice to be the second language to be studied comparing with English.
	www.cogs.susx.ac.uk /users/xw20/cn.html (1188 words)

	Chinese grammar: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a pro-form that substitutes a noun or noun phrase with or without a determiner, such as you and...
		Chinese is considered to be a topic-prominent language topic-prominent language quick summary:
		In grammar, a preposition is a type of adposition, a grammatical particle that establishes a relationship between an object (usually a noun phrase)...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chinese_grammar.htm (2890 words)

	Grammar [encyclopedia]
		The subfields of grammar are phonology, morphology and syntax.
		The formal study of grammar is an important part of education from a young age through advanced learning, though the rules taught in schools are not a "grammar" in the sense most linguists use the term, as they are often prescriptive rather than descriptive.
		In teaching grammars it is often necessary to simplify in order to achieve success, as neither the prescriptive nor the descriptive approaches are logical or easy to understand in all details.
	www.artzia.com /Society/Language/Grammar (722 words)

	Learning Chinese Online - Grammar
		Basic Chinese Grammar (By Simmons, Richard VanNess) This is a slide show that reviews the basics of Spoken Standard Chinese Grammar.
		Chinese Grammar (By ChineseOn.net, Inc.) Four lectures on Chinese nouns, verbs, auxiliary verbs and adjectives in Chinese and English.
		Introduction to Elementary Chinese Grammar (By Wong, Sylvia) Elementary Chinese grammar is explained in lecture format.
	www.csulb.edu /~txie/grammar.htm (211 words)

	Chinese Grammar :: Beijing Time
		chinese translations classroom corruption chinese peasants in society orgasms peasants plight shanghai girls mass poisoning the conman city life
		The Chinese don't distinguish between these words in English because they don't distinguish between them in Chinese - small, regular changes to the grammar of a sentence are all that's necessary.
		Chinese has a range of little words which get dropped in at the end of a sentence to change the meaning in someway.
	www.chinese-forums.com /bj/grammar.html (764 words)

	Yale Mirror Series (spoken Chinese)
		A pragmatic approach to Chinese grammar enabling the learner to avoid some of the most common problems.
		This brand-new intermediate level textbook for modern Chinese, in two volumes, is designed for those studying on their own or for class use.
		With emphasis on communication in the spoken language, all lessons include multiple dialogues in both forms of the character and pinyin, followed by notes, vocabulary and extensive, creative and interactive sets of exercises.
	www.yale.edu /fep/catalog/mirror1.html (987 words)

	Wellesley College IT : Chinese Grammar Software Wins Award
		Written by Jing-Heng Ma, Professor of Chinese, and Robert Smitheram, a former Assistant Professor of Chinese, HyperChinese is a HyperCard-based program for Chinese language instruction.
		The scope of the material covered is not a complete description of Chinese grammar, but rather a focused presentation of the core grammar and the common areas of difficulty for English-speaking students of Chinese.
		All Chinese is in PinYin with English translations -- no Chinese characters are used for instructional purposes.
	www.wellesley.edu /Computing/IT/Projects/Chinese/Chinese.html (519 words)

	Chinese Medical Chinese- Grammar & Vocabulary - Nigel Wiseman, Ye Feng
		The first part describes the basic features of the literary language of Chinese medicine, its relationship to the language of the classical period and to the modern vernacular of northern China, known as "Mandarin." It explains many grammatical constructions commonly encountered in Chinese medical texts, and describes in detail how Chinese medical terms are composed.
		The text begins with an explanation of the grammar and continues with vocabulary sections covering Basic Theories, Diseases, Pathomechanisms and Pattern Identification, Principles and Methods of Treatment, Chinese Pharmaceutics and Acupuncture.
		This work assumes that the student has already acquired a knowledge of how Chinese characters are composed, how they are written by hand, and how they are pronounced.
	www.redwingbooks.com /products/books/ChiMedChiGraVoc.cfm (392 words)

	Learn Chinese
		In Chinese there is only approximately 400 syllables while for example English have 12.000 syllables.
		Chinese words can be used in many more ways than the English equivalence.
		Since there are only one form to every Chinese word this sentence in Chinese would be "I beat he" or "he beat me".
	www.euroasiasoftware.com /english/chinese/learn/tongrammatikeng.html (658 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Basic Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook (Routledge Grammars): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		All Chinese entries are presented in both pinyin romanisation and Chinese characters, and are accompanied, in most cases, by English translations to facilitate self-tuition in both spoken and written Chinese.
		Together with its sister volume, "Intermediate Chinese", it seeks to form a compendium of the essentials of Chinese syntax.
		Therefore it gives a very solid grounding in Chinese grammar, supported by plenty of exercises ranging from the traditional prose translation type, to error-correction style activities.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415160367 (750 words)

	Oxford University Press: Chinese Grammar: Hilary Chappell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is an anthology on topics in the grammar of Chinese (Sinitic) languages.
		Its aim is to meld historical and typological approaches in the examination of grammatical phenomena in order to show the extent to which both earlier stages of Chinese, as well as the modern dialects, differ from standard Mandarin.
		Her publications include a jointly edited volume with William McGregor entitled 'The Grammar of Inalienability' (Mouton de Gruyter, 1995) which has become a standard reference in typology on the topic of grammatical possession.
	www.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/SyntaxMorphology/?ci=0199272131&view=usa (336 words)

	Amazon.com: Schaum's Outline of Chinese Grammar: Books: Claudia Ross,Claudia Ross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Schaum's Outline of Chinese Grammar is designed to assist beginning and intermediate students of Mandarin Chinese develop and enhance their knowledge of Chinese grammar.
		The accessible summary of the major features of Chinese grammar complete with clear explanations of terms and usage is especially helpful to students.
		Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars) by Dr.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0071377646?v=glance (1604 words)

	Basic Chinese Grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is a slide show that reviews the basics of Spoken Standard Chinese Grammar.
		The main slides are in "gif" graphics format, which allows the Chinese examples to be viewed on any system.
		But as of the present, the text-only slides have only question marks where the Chinese text should be, and you will probably find them of little use.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~rsimmon/chingram (109 words)

	classical-chinese grammar particle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		teaches the fundamentals of classical chinese grammar through a reading of pre...
		for the grammar of NP coordination in Medieval Chinese...
		Chao: A grammar of spoken Chinese (Y. Li...
	www.english-megasite.com /articles/49/classical-chinese-grammar-particle.html (444 words)

	Schaums Outline of Chinese Grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Moreover, because Chinese is a tonal language with a zillion homonyms pinyin really isnt very helpful except as a tool for pronunciation and filing.
		If you are like me, trying to figure out where to begin studying Chinese, I recommend purchasing a grammar early on.
		The grammar exercises are helpful and having the answers at the back make it a good choice for self study.
	www.travelreviewbooks.com /Schaums_Outline_of_Chinese_Grammar_0071377646.html (430 words)

	Classical Chinese Primer \| Grammar Abbreviations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As the Chinese language evolves, over centuries, elements once at home in the F position gradually migrate to the B position.
		This process was already under way in our period, and it has become nearly complete in modern Chinese (it is possible, though not profoundly correct, to analyze modern Chinese as having only B adverbs).
		The "as for" translation is ubiquitous as a device for rendering Chinese T phrases (as it is also for Japanese "wa" phrases).
	www.umass.edu /wsp/primer/grammar/abbreviations.html (1859 words)

	Chinese grammar & usage books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This book covers the major points that you'd cover in a first year Chinese class, but in more depth than textbooks have the space or inclination to.
		The first half of the book is in Chinese and the second half is in English.
		The authors take 201 Chinese verbs and for each one combines it with 20+ other words to make various types of verbs.
	members.tripod.com /gregbosco/cgrammar.html (633 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of Mandarin Chinese, the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.
		This is a good book for a student of Chinese at the high-intermediate level or above as a supplementary grammar.
		This is not for the regular student of Chinese.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0520066103 (1042 words)

	Introduction to Elementary Chinese Grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chinese grammar is very different from Czech grammar.
		Czech is a highly inflectional language; whereas Chinese is regarded as an isolating language by
		Hutchins and Somers (1992) due to its lack of inflectional morphology.
	www.fi.muni.cz /usr/wong/teaching/chinese/notes/node17.html (117 words)

	Amazon.com: Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars): Books: Dr. Po-Ching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Intermediate Chinese; A Grammar and Workbook (Routledge Grammars) by YIP PO-CHING
		The Grammar is an essential reference source for the learner and user of Chinese, irrespective of level.
		Throughout, the emphasis is on Chinese as used by present-day native speakers.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415150329?v=glance (1474 words)

	China List : Chinese Writing
		Chinese Language and Culture from Chinese-forums.com - powered by...
		Chinese bilingual videos, audio tapes, books, and software about the Chineselanguage and culture in English and Mandarin.
		Chinese language and culture site with literature from Lao Zi to the present day.Individual Chinese characters linked to English translation.
	china-list.com /chinesewriting/index.php (784 words)

	chinese grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Transparent Language's Chinese language pages are dedicated to Chinese language learning.
		Chinese language, learn to speak Chinese, improve your Chinese grammar, practice conversational Chinese, and hear Chinese...
		Schaum's Outline of Chinese Grammar by Claudia Ross, Claudia Ross...
	www.llennac.com /articles4/53/chinese-grammar.html (400 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Beyond the study of Chaozhou and southern Min, the significance of the research lies in its contribution to the comparative study of Chinese dialects.
		Long restricted to phonology and lexicon, this field now extends to grammar, where divergences have been found which are typologically and theoretically revealing.
		Southern Min dialects are of great interest for the comparative grammar of Chinese dialects: interrogatives, comparatives and aspect, for example, are all known to differ substantially from both Mandarin and Cantonese.
	www.hku.hk /linguist/staff/chaozhou.html (359 words)

	Advanced Chinese Grammar
		The goal of the course is to increase your understanding of Chinese grammar in order to improve your mastery of Chinese.
		A secondary goal is to explore the nature of Standard Chinese grammatical structure in general and learn how and where it differs from the grammars of other languages, such as English and Chinese dialects.
		We will look at Chinese sounds, word structure and formation, sentence grammar, and paragraph structure, using a variety of techniques, from analysis to problem solving.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /%7Ersimmon/chi325syl.htm (653 words)

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