Chinese : a linguistic introduction / Chaofen Sun.

Contents

Introduction

1. Historical background
1.1 Prehistoric time
1.2 Oracle-bone and bronze scripts
1.3 Old Chinese (771 BCE to 220 CE)
1.4 Middle Chinese (220 CE to 960 CE)
1.5 Early Modern Chiness ( 960 to 1900)
Etc.

2. Phonetics of standard Chinese
2.1 Initials
2.2 Finals
2.3 Rhotacization
2.4 Tones
2.5 Tone-sandhi

3. Morphology 1
3.1 Compounding
3.2 Derivation-like affixes
3.3 Inflection-like affixes
3.4 Summary

4. Morphology 2
4.1 Clitics
4.2 Reduplication
4.3 Beyond morphology
4.4 Summary

5. Chinese writing
5.1 Chinese characters
5.2 The history of Chinese script
5.3 The strokes of Chinese writing
5.4 Simplifed standard script

6. Chinese language and culture
6.1 Cultural beliefs and chinese expressions
6.2 Language contacts and borrowings
6.3 Neologisms and morpheme-syllable script
6.4 Summary

7. Chinese syntax 1
7.1 Linear order, lexical categories, subcategorization, and semantic roles
7.2 Other lexical categories
7.3 Constituency
7.4 Selectional restrictions
7.5 Chinese pronouns and demonstratives
Etc.

8. Chinese syntax 2.
8.1 Nominalization
8.2 Relative clauses
8.3 Cleft sentences
8.4 Adverbials
8.5 Serial-verb constructions
Etc.

Includes bibliographical references p. 225-228 and index p. 229-234