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Peer reviewedChan, Stephen W. – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1974
Examines several subtypes of the verbal sequency NP-VP1-VP2 in Chinese, especially those involving descriptions of human action, directed motion, and instrumental functions, and finds that these could be subsumed under the heading of "purposive clauses." The VP1 states an action whose goal is fulfilled by the action performed in VP2. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar
Download full textWang, William S-Y; Chan, Stephen W. – 1974
The report documents progress and results of a 2-1/3 year effort to further the prototype Chinese-English Machine Translation System. Additional rules were incorporated into the existing grammar for Chinese analysis and interlingual transfer, with emphasis on the latter. CHIDIC was updated and revised. Approximately 16,000 new entries were added…
Descriptors: Chinese, Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics
