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Peer reviewedCheng, Robert L. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1980
Divides Taiwanese modals into: (1) authority, where a deep structure agent exercises authority; (2) contigency, which concerns the speaker's judgment of the possibility or logical necessity df the occurrence of an event; and (3) volition, which expresses the subject's desires. The constructions in which these modals appear are examined. (PJM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Semantics, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedTomayko, James E. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1974
A method of teaching question formation in the Chinese language by use of transformational grammar is described. (RM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Instruction
