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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...
Kulturtransfer über Epochen und Kontinente
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 126.00China?s modernization has been marked by a critical examination of both native and foreign traditions. How can deep upheaval be harnessed creatively? How can new attitudes be formed by adapting and transforming cultural knowledge? The historical novel Wu Zixu (1946) by Feng Zhi (1905-93), the father of German studies in China and inventor of the Chinese... more...
Clouded Leopard
D & M Publishers 2008; US$ 19.95Wade Davis has been called 'a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life?s diversity?? Driven by the desire to discover new plants for healing and visions, as well as to learn about other ways of knowing the wild, he journeys from the rain forests of Borneo to the mountains of Tibet, from the ice floes of... more...
Book of the Edge
BOA Editions Ltd. 2010; US$ 14.00The first US poetry translation of an award-winning younger Turkish poet and controversial investigative journalist. more...
C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature
Columbia University Press 2004; US$ 59.99-- Choloe Starr, The China Quarterly more...
Literary Culture in Taiwan
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 49.99-- Robert Hegel, Washington University 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$ 224.00This 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...
A Speaker from Taipei
De Gruyter 1984; US$ 133.00Varieties of Spoken Standard Chinese: A Speaker from Taipei v. 2. more...
A Synchronic Phonology of Mandarin Chinese
De Gruyter 1973; US$ 133.00A Synchronic Phonology of Mandarin Chinese more...









