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- The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks In Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part One Writing System/Neuro-cognitive Processing of Chinese
- Part Two Morpho-lexical Issues in Chinese
- 3 Wordhood and Disyllabicity in Chinese
- 4 Characters as Basic Lexical Units and Monosyllabicity in Chinese
- 5 Parts of Speech in Chinese and How to Identify Them
- 6 Gaps in Parts of Speech in Chinese and Why?
- 7 Derivational and Inflectional Affixes in Chinese and Their Morphosyntactic Properties
- 8 The Extreme Poverty of Affixation in Chinese
- 9 On an Integral Theory of Word Formation in Chinese and Beyond
- 10 Compounding Is Semantics-driven in Chinese
- Part Three Phonetic-phonological Issues in Chinese
- Part Four Syntax-semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse Issues
- Index
- References
5 - Parts of Speech in Chinese and How to Identify Them
from Part Two - Morpho-lexical Issues in Chinese
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2022
- The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks In Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part One Writing System/Neuro-cognitive Processing of Chinese
- Part Two Morpho-lexical Issues in Chinese
- 3 Wordhood and Disyllabicity in Chinese
- 4 Characters as Basic Lexical Units and Monosyllabicity in Chinese
- 5 Parts of Speech in Chinese and How to Identify Them
- 6 Gaps in Parts of Speech in Chinese and Why?
- 7 Derivational and Inflectional Affixes in Chinese and Their Morphosyntactic Properties
- 8 The Extreme Poverty of Affixation in Chinese
- 9 On an Integral Theory of Word Formation in Chinese and Beyond
- 10 Compounding Is Semantics-driven in Chinese
- Part Three Phonetic-phonological Issues in Chinese
- Part Four Syntax-semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse Issues
- Index
- References
Summary
The purpose of classifying words into parts of speech is to better represent how they combine with each other. From a structural point of view, this chapter introduces the principles of defining parts of speech in Chinese and gives the details of how they are defined. The overlapping of parts of speech is examined, with an extended discussion about how to handle the overlapping classes. Studies on the same issue but from other perspectives are briefly reviewed.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics , pp. 97 - 113Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022