Word Order Strategies of Standard Chinese: An Analysis in Regard to Temporal Sequence

by Anja Schmidt

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1+ (A+), University of Hamburg, course: Motivation in Language, language: English, abstract: Linguists studying the syntactic relations of Chinese have often argued that Chinese, being a non-inflectional language, was more reliant on iconic principles than most Western languages. Since Chinese is largely dependent on the use of grammatical particles and word order,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 363876088X
• ISBN13: 9783638760881
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"