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A Scholar's Path
World Scientific Publishing Company 2010; US$ 59.00This original English translation from the Chinese text comprises 60 poems (85 verses) and three prose compositions. It opens a window to the heart and mind of a Chinese scholar who lived from the late Qing through the 1950s. It reflects the life of a pioneer writer of Malayan-Singapore Chinese Literature: his personal tragedies, struggles, disappointments... more...
Categories and Case
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 180.00The principal objective of this book is to provide a unified treatment of morphological case in Korean. Focussing on the nominative, accusative and dative suffixes, the author seeks to show that each of these morphemes consistently encodes a corresponding combinatorial relation in the surface' form of sentences. In support of his analysis, the author... more...
Syntaxe des verbes de mouvement en coréen contemporain
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1985; US$ 180.00Space in Tense
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 158.00This monograph explores the tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality of Korean, which has a rich verbal inflectional system, and proposes novel treatments within the framework of compositional semantics. One of the major contributions is the demonstration that Korean has two types of deictic tense?simple deictic and spatial deictic tense. Spatial deictic... more...
Mehrsprachige Lebenswelten
Narr Francke Attempto 2012; US$ 37.73Hauptbeschreibung In vielen Großstädten Deutschlands haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten Migrantenwohngebiete entwickelt, in denen ethnische Gemeinschaften in engen Netzwerken leben. Die Kinder wachsen in mehrkulturellen Lebenswelten auf und bilden im Alltag, in den Familien und Peergroups mehrsprachige Kommunikationspraktiken aus. In den deutschen... more...
Yuan Mei
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95First published in 1956. Arthur Waley here presents an engrossing account of the works and life of Yuan Mei (1716-1797), the best-known poet of his time. Gaiety is the keynote of his works and the poet was a friend of the Manchu official with whom Commodore Anson had dramatic dealings at Canton in 1743. Yuan Mei gives an account (not previously translated)... more...
A Proper Little Lady
HarperCollins Publishers 2013; US$ 10.86Annabella Jones decides that today she will be a proper little lady and sets off to play in her very best dress! But the Proper Little Lady runs into all sorts of adventures -- climbing trees, even playing football and arrives home looking a little less proper! Ages 3+ more...
Alyawarr to English Dictionary
IAD Press 1992; US$ 23.45The centre of Alyawarr country lies about 200 kilometres to the north-east of Alice Springs, a land of spinifex sandhills, mulga plains and low rocky outcrops crossed by the Sandover and Bundey Rivers. The language of the Alyawarr people is now recorded in this landmark dictionary, the first ever published of an Arandic language. It contains over 4,500... more...
Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 147.00Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar is an innovative reference guide to Mandarin Chinese, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. Divided into two sections closely linked by extensive cross-references, it covers: traditional grammatical categories such as phrase order, nouns, verbs and specifiers language functions... more...









