Adverbial Clauses in Mandarin Chinese
The aim of this study is to demonstrate the usefulness of corpus linguistics as a methodology in grammar studies. By analysing naturally occurring spoken and written samples from various corpora, the author examines the distribution of subjects across the semantic domains and information structure of adverbial clauses and across text types.
The aim of this study is to demonstrate the usefulness of corpus linguistics as a methodology in grammar studies. By analysing naturally occurring spoken and written samples from various corpora, the author examines the distribution of subjects across the semantic domains and information structure of adverbial clauses and across text types.
| Autor: | Wong, May Lai-Ying |
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| ISBN: | 9783034311205 |
| Auflage: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 334 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers |
| Veröffentlicht: | 30.01.2013 |
| Untertitel: | A Corpus-based Study |
| Schlagworte: | Adverbial Chinese Clauses Corpus Grammar Theory Linguistic Data Processing Mandarin Study based |
May L-Y Wong received her PhD in Linguistics in 2005 from Lancaster University. She is currently Honorary Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include quantitative corpus linguistics, varieties of English, cognitively-inspired theories of language and the integration of corpus linguistics and cognitive linguistics.