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Peer reviewedTai, James; Hu, Wenze – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1991
Identifies motives for the inversion of various preverbal elements to the end of sentences in Beijing conversational discourse, focusing on such communicative functions and organizational mechanisms as thematization, repair, and afterthought appendage. (32 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedErnst, Thomas – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1991
Reviews a wide-ranging formal analysis of Chinese syntax that explores the role of case theory in the phrase structure of Chinese. (15 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Patterns, Language Research
Peer reviewedHu, Mingliang – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1993
Discussed the relationship between definiteness and word order (WO) from three aspects: the position of the unquantified noun phrases as related to their definiteness; effects of quantifiers on WO; and relative order of different noun phrases in the same clause. Data verify that the correlation between definiteness and WO is valid for larger…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research, Mandarin Chinese
Peer reviewedHuang, Lillian Meei-jin; Davis, Philip W. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1991
Contrasts symmetrical and asymmetrical features of word order in Mandarin and English, focusing on the preverbal and postverbal positional contrast, and revealing several cognitive sources for similarities between the two languages. (53 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns, Mandarin Chinese
Peer reviewedKubler, Cornelius C. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1988
Presents checklists of the more common grammatical patterns in spoken Mandarin for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students. Most of the patterns include an example with an English gloss. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Idioms, Language Patterns, Mandarin Chinese, Phrase Structure
