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Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1990; US$ 173.00Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be said to have a consistent grammatical function. They... more...
Early Child Cantonese
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00This book is the first publication on record that systematically and comprehensively addresses the acquisition and development of Cantonese in early childhood. It draws upon evidence from up-to-date reviews of associated literature, on the outcomes of numerous research studies conducted by the authors and on the outcomes of an in-depth study of the... more...
Die Fünf Meister aus Sichuan (Sichuan wu junzi): Die Posthermetischen Lyriker Bai Hua, Zhang Zao, Zhong Ming, Ouyang Jianghe und Zhai Yongming
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 49.59Hauptbeschreibung Die Fünf Meister aus Sichuan, zu der die Dichter Bai Hua (geb. 1956), Zhang Zao (1962-2010), Zhong Ming (geb. 1953), Ouyang Jianghe (geb. 1956) und Zhai Yongming (geb. 1955) gehören, können als eine der wichtigsten Gruppierungen innerhalb der zeitgenössischen chinesischen Lyrik angesehen werden. Sie vereint nicht nur langjährige... more...
Studies in Turkish Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1986; US$ 188.00Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages, which extends over a vast area in southern and eastern Siberia and adjacent portions of Iran, Afganistan, and China. Turkic, in turn, belongs to the Altaic family of languages. This book deals with the morphological and syntactic, semantic and discourse-based, synchronic and diachronic aspects... more...
Die orientalistische Gelehrtenrepublik am Vorabend des Ersten Weltkrieges
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 126.00This volume presents the correspondence that took place between the Göttingen Iranian scholar and academician Friedrich Carl Andreas and the Turkish, Ural-Altaic, and English scholar Willi Bang(-Kaup). more...
Studien zu seriellen Verbkonstruktionen
De Gruyter 1999; US$ 126.00This study takes a close look at so-called serial verb constructions against a corpus of data from the Chinese. The author's conclusion is that the construction types dealt with (purpose clause, descriptive clause, resultative complement construction, V-V composites) can be analyzed in terms of a unified serial verb construction schema since in all... more...
Die deutsch-türkische Lexikographie
De Gruyter 1998; US$ 126.00This book takes a metalexicographic perspective on 20th-century German-Turkish dictionaries. The total of eight major general-purpose dictionaries are analyzed for their macro- and micro-structural features on the basis of the relatively uniform method of lexicographic description employed in the study of modern dictionaries. The chronological treatment... more...
Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Chinese Literacy in China
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99This is one of two volumes by the same editors that explore historical, philosophical, and cultural perspectives on literacy in China. This volume focuses on Chinese literacy, while the other volume is on English literacy. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country has witnessed a dramatic increase in its literacy rate, but... more...
Sprachführer Chinesisch für Dummies Das Pocketbuch
Wiley 2013; US$ 8.95"Sprachführer Chinesisch für Dummies" bietet einen schnellen Überblick über die wichtigsten Wörter und Redewendungen für den Alltag. Jedes Kapitel beschäftigt sich mit einer Alltagssituation: So haben Sie schnell die passenden Sätze parat, wenn Sie beispielsweise im Restaurant bestellen, nach einer Wegbeschreibung... more...
Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century
Indiana University Press 2000; US$ 35.15"... an important contribution to the study of recent Chinese literature." -- Choice "This fine, scholarly survey of Chinese literature since 1949... discusses such trends as modernism, nativism, realism, root-seeking and 'scar' literature, 'misty' poets, and political, feminist, and ... more...









