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tavel.stanford.edu>Title: ON THE FORMAL WAY TO CHINESE LANGUAGES Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: CSLI Publications http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/ Availability: Available Editor: Sze-Wing Tang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Editor: Chen-Sheng Luther Liu, National Chi Nan University Hardback: ISBN: 1575863693, Pages: 269, Price: $70.00 Paperback: ISBN: 1575863707, Pages: 269, Price: $28.00 Abstract: This collection presents readers with the main thrust of current research on Chinese languages from the perspective of formal linguistics. Written by an international assembly of researchers in the Weld, the papers offer an in-depth study of important theoretical issues and particular questions in contemporary Chinese linguistics, and serve as a useful reference for various areas of Chinese grammar. The eleven chapters include discussions of reflexivity, modifiers and nominal structures, tense, verbal constructions and sentence structures, onset change, suffixation, and first language acquisition. This volume provides for all readers a valuable resource of and the greatest access to the Weld of formal Chinese linguistics today. [To order this book, contact The University of Chicago Press. Call their toll free order number 1-800-621-2736 (U.S. & Canada only) or order online at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ (use the search feature to locate the book, then order).] Lingfield(s): General Linguistics/Language Description Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (Language Code: CHN) Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue