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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Chinese Linguistics"”.
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Negation and Aspect: A comparative study of Mandarin and Cantonese varieties
… between standard negation and aspect in Chinese under two conditions: bare negation showing negation-situation type compatibility, and negation with overt aspectual marking. The comparative study of Beijing Mandarin, Taiwan Mandarin, Hong Kong Cantonese, and the previously unstudied …
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Native and Non-native Grammars of Chinese Gapping-like Verb Ellipsis
… literature on empty categories in Mandarin Chinese by examining second language (L2) acquisition of a type of Chinese verb-less constructions by English-speaking learners. The verb-less constructions in question are Chinese gapping-like constructions which bear a surface resemblance to …
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A Morphological Study of the Antonymous Compounds in Chinese: How the Word Class Changes and Why
<p>The majority of Chinese words are compounds. Among compounds, there is a special kind of compounds. It is made up of two antonymous morphemes. The antonymous compounds undergo functional shift. In 40% percent of the cases, the compounds have different word classes from the morphemes. The thesis …
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Chinese Foreign Language Attrition: Investigating Aspect Marker Usage
… marking. This study reveals that learners of Chinese who spend time in a Chinese-speaking environment and gain a fairly high level of oral proficiency retain much of their oral production abilities over a 12-year period. Additionally, subjects are able to retain and use syntax and lexicon from …