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Rough Guide Phrasebook: Mandarin Chinese
Rough Guides 2011; US$ 8.99Make the most of your trip with the Rough Guide Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook. Find the perfect word or phrase for every situation Use extensive two-way dictionary packed with vocabulary Choose food and drink from any menu Check ou t travel tips and a regional pronunciation guide Listen to correct pronunciation of essential dialogues DOWNLOAD... more...
Rough Guide Phrasebook: Turkish
Rough Guides 2011; US$ 8.99Make the most of your trip with the Rough Guide Turkish Phrasebook. Find the perfect word or phrase for every situation Use extensive two-way dictionary packed with vocabulary Choose food and drink from any menu Check ou t travel tips and a regional pronunciation guide Listen to correct pronunciation of essential dialogues DOWNLOAD EASY... more...
Units in Mandarin Conversation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 158.00This book provides a new way of studying grammar. The basic thrust of the book is to investigate grammar based on a prosodic unit, the intonation unit (IU), in spontaneous speech. The author challenges the dominant practice in the study of syntax, which has been to focus on the unit of the artificially constructed sentence. The book shows that some... more...
Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings
Stone Bridge Press 2012; US$ 12.95A collection of 500+ proverbs in Chinese and English, capturing the enduring wisdom of China, for travelers and language students. more...
Plurality and Classifiers across Languages in China
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar. The contributions in this book focus onthe typological correlation between the three different strategies for quantification, as well as on some general issues. A better understanding of the quantification strategies in... more...
Foreign-Inspired Chinese Terms
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 159.95This book aims to classify the word production of foreign-inspired Chinese terms (FICT), within the language system of modern Chinese according to principles of cognitive semantics. FICT refers to a group of vocabulary items in Chinese that are formed and motivated by foreign entities or concepts. These words are designated by some foreign words, but... more...
Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology
De Gruyter 2000; US$ 210.00This book discusses the methodology of systematic Chinese Dialect classification, with particular attention to the conservative Miin and Hakka groups spoken in southern China. The primary linguistic methodology employed is the historical-comparative method, and the dialects chosen as examples of classification are those spoken in and around the township... more...
Autosegmental Studies on Pitch Accent
De Gruyter 1988; US$ 126.00Autosegmental Studies on Pitch Accent Linguistic Models more...
A Synchronic Phonology of Mandarin Chinese
De Gruyter 1973; US$ 126.00A Synchronic Phonology of Mandarin Chinese more...
A Speaker from Taipei
De Gruyter 1984; US$ 126.00Varieties of Spoken Standard Chinese: A Speaker from Taipei v. 2. more...









