This chapter presents some of the arguments which are taken to be the most compelling for
the parameter-setting approach come from two types of cases: the existence of a universal …

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talk of another, which appears on the next line attributed to another speaker. If there is more …

This article explores how the pragmatic notion of identifiability is encoded in Chinese. It
presents a detailed analysis of the distinctive linguistic devices, including lexical …

This book provides a research-based account of how to teach and learn Chinese as a
foreign language. In addition to the discussion of relevant second/foreign language …

Innovations and Challenges in Grammar traces the history of common understandings of
what grammar is and where it came from to demonstrate how 'rules' are anything but fixed …

This paper investigates two interrelated uses of the utterance-final form dehua in Mandarin
Chinese, its the conditional marker use and the discourse marker use. While the conditional …

An examination of three major elementary spoken Chinese textbooks compiled in China, the
US, and Great Britain shows that there is a severe lack of authenticity in the materials taught …

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所研究員,< wbr> 本書以話語功能語言學理論為取向,< wbr> 將前沿性語言學理論與漢語實際相 …