Browsing East Asian Languages and Literatures (Chinese) by Title

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Ambiguities of the evaluative adverb Jiu

Tian, Yuan (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003-12)

This dissertation is based on research that investigates uses of the evaluative adverb jiu in evaluating time and quantity. Uses of jiu in Beijing Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin are compared and contrasted. In Beijing ...
Event conceptualization and grammatical realization: the case of motion in Mandarin Chinese

Chu, Chengzhi, 1966 (2004)
Images and expressions: resultative verb-complement constructions in Chinese

Wang, Haidan (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002)

This dissertation presents the results of an extensive and in-depth investigation of Mandarin Resultative Verbal Compounds (RVCs) carried out to uncover the semantic complexity hidden under their syntactic simplicity. A ...
An investigation of written Taiwanese

Ota, Katsuhiro J (2005)
Linguistic and graphic manipulation in the miscellaneous forms of traditional Chinese poetry

Li, Yanfeng, 1964 (2005)
Prediction? Prescription? an analysis of Chinese and English modalities: a comparative approach

Wang, Shao-ling (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003)

Modality, known as "Qing Tai Ci" in Mandarin, is one of the most important parts in a natural language. Failure to properly grasp the use of modality may cause unexpected misunderstandings. This paper, firstly, uses the ...
Why Johnny can read Chinese : working memory, cognitive processes, and reading comprehension

Hayden, Jeffrey J (2004)