Documents CLSW2013 A Semantic Study of the Adverb Jiu in Mandarin ZHANG Lei LEE Peppina Polun Department of...

Slide 1 CLSW2013 A Semantic Study of the Adverb Jiu in Mandarin ZHANG Lei LEE Peppina Polun Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong…

Documents A discourse Grammar of Mandain Chinese3

TOPICALITY, PROTOTYPE AND THE CHINESE TOPIC The term topic was first proposed by Hockett (1958) to capture a linguistic concept that exhibits some similarity to the syntactic…