Mandarin Chinese
Douban
ISBN: 9780520066106
author:
Charles N. Li
/
Sandra A. Thompson
publishing house:
University of California Press
publication date: 1989
-4
price: USD 49.95
number of pages: 720
A Functional Reference Grammar
Charles N. Li / Sandra A. Thompson
overview
This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of "Mandarin Chinese", the official spoken language of China's mainland and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.