A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese - Hardcover

Li, Eden Sum-hung

 
9780826491046: A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese

Synopsis

This book presents an analysis of Chinese grammar from a systemic functional perspective. Its main focus is the clausal grammar of Chinese, and Dr Li provides a thorough analysis of Chinese clauses according to their constituent parts. However, uniquely, the second half of the book extends this examination into an analysis of Chinese discourse and text analysis. Professor Halliday's foreword praises Eden Li's thorough analysis, and shows its relevance to the field of systemic functional linguistics in general. Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese provides the reader with a general theoretical framework of grammar and discourse analysis from a systemic functional perspective.

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About the Author

Eden Sum-hung Li is Research Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong.

Fang Yan is Professor of Linguistics at Tsinghua University, Beijing, Vice-Chair of the International Systemic-Functional Linguistics Association and the Vice-Chair of the China Functional Linguistics Association.

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