Taiwanese Grammar

Author : Philip T. Lin
Publisher : Greenhorn Media
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780996398206

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Taiwanese Grammar by Philip T. Lin Pdf

Taiwanese Grammar: A Concise Reference is an unprecedented guide delivering clear, straightforward explanations of Taiwanese grammar while offering insightful comparisons to Mandarin. Designed to be both functional and accessible, the text makes searching for topics quick and easy with fully cross-referenced entries and a comprehensive index. Topics covered range broadly from parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adverbs, etc.) to grammatical topics (aspect, negation, passive voice, etc.) to special topics (terms of address, pronunciation, time, etc.). This text is ideal for self-study and enables students at all levels to learn Taiwanese by building a solid foundation in grammar. Taiwanese (also known as Hokkien, Fookien, Amoy, Southern Min, or Fukienese) along with its variants is spoken by over 40 million people worldwide and is a member of the Chinese language family. Features of this text include: • Easy-to-use reference guide with cross-referenced entries and a comprehensive index • 1000+ example sentences using everyday vocabulary rendered in Taiwanese, Mandarin Chinese, and English • Character script for Taiwanese in accordance with the official selection of Taiwanese Characters by the Taiwanese Ministry of Education (2007) • Romanization provided for both Taiwanese (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) and Mandarin Chinese (Hànyǔ Pīnyīn) • In-depth guide to pronunciation using English approximations and full explanations on rules for changing tones (tone sandhi) Tags: learn Taiwanese, learning Taiwanese, Taiwanese language, Taiwanese grammar, Taiwanese, Hokkien, learning Hokkien, Amoy, Southern Min, Fukienese, Fookien, Min nan

Author : Weirong Chen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511509

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A Grammar of Southern Min by Weirong Chen Pdf

Southern Min (also known as Hokkien or Minnan) is a major branch of Chinese spoken mainly in Fujian and Taiwan, but also in Guangdong, Hainan and Hong Kong, as well as in many countries of Southeast Asia. Highly conservative in its linguistic profile, it is considered by many scholars to be a living language fossil due to the preservation of many archaic features that reflect its long-lasting history and culture. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive study of Southern Min using a typological framework, as the tendency is to base analyses on the model of Mandarin Chinese, the standard language. This grammar aims to present a systematic description of the Hui'an variety of Southern Min, mainly based on data collected via naturally occurring conversation. The volume includes four parts: nominal structure, predicate structure, clause structure and complex sentences, as well as a brief overview of phonology. It will have great appeal for heritage speakers, graduate students and scholars in both Chinese linguistics and typology.

Author : Weirong Chen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511868

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A Grammar of Southern Min by Weirong Chen Pdf

Southern Min (also known as Hokkien or Minnan) is a major branch of Chinese spoken mainly in Fujian and Taiwan, but also in Guangdong, Hainan and Hong Kong, as well as in many countries of Southeast Asia. Highly conservative in its linguistic profile, it is considered by many scholars to be a living language fossil due to the preservation of many archaic features that reflect its long-lasting history and culture. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive study of Southern Min using a typological framework, as the tendency is to base analyses on the model of Mandarin Chinese, the standard language. This grammar aims to present a systematic description of the Hui'an variety of Southern Min, mainly based on data collected via naturally occurring conversation. The volume includes four parts: nominal structure, predicate structure, clause structure and complex sentences, as well as a brief overview of phonology. It will have great appeal for heritage speakers, graduate students and scholars in both Chinese linguistics and typology.

Author : John McCoy,Timothy Light
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004655409

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Contributions to Sino-Tibetan Studies by John McCoy,Timothy Light Pdf

This book is a Festschrift volume dedicated to Emeritus Professor Nicholas C. Bodman, by his students, colleagues and friends and consists of a selection of contributions that match his interests in the descriptive, historical and comparative study of Chinese dialects (especially Min dialects) and the fields of Tibeto-Burman and Sino-Tibetan linguistics. The book is organized into sections: 1) General Compilation and Analysis (with articles by J.A. Matisov and M.J. Hashimoto), 2) Southeast Asian Languages (E.J.A. Henderson, R.B. Jones, W.J. Gedney, S. Egerod and M. Sherard), 3) Early Recorded Forms of Chinese (P. L-M Serruys, W.H. Baxter III, W. South Coblin and E.G. Pulleyblank), 4) Early Reconstructed Forms of Chinese (J. McCoy, J. Norman and K. Chang), 5) Modern Chinese Dialects (Y.C. Li, T. Light and A.R. Walton). These contributions by foremost scholars are significant. They throw new light and supply important new data on the linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman and Sino-Tibetan fields.

Author : Bingjun Yang,Wen Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811547713

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Corpus-based Approaches to Grammar, Media and Health Discourses by Bingjun Yang,Wen Li Pdf

This edited volume gathers corpus-based studies on topics including English grammar and discourses on media and health, mainly from a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) perspective, in order to reveal the potential of SFL, which has been emphasized by Halliday. Various other perspectives, such as philosophy, statistics, genre studies, etc. are also included to promote SFL’s potential interaction with other theories. Though they employ a diverse range of theoretical perspectives, all the chapters focus on exploring language in use with the corpus method. The studies collected here are all original, unpublished research articles that address significant questions, deepen readers’ understanding of SFL, and promote its potential interaction with other theories. In addition, they demonstrate the great potential that SFL holds for solving language-related questions in a variety of discourses.

Author : Mark Fifer Seilhamer
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788923033

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Gender, Neoliberalism and Distinction through Linguistic Capital by Mark Fifer Seilhamer Pdf

This book presents the narratives of four Taiwanese young women, all proficient in English, set against the background of the dynamics of multilingualism in Taiwan. It chronicles their strategies and struggles when utilizing cultural goods – in this case their linguistic resources – to differentiate themselves within Taiwanese society. The study provides a uniquely bottom-up perspective by focusing intently on just four focal participants, in order to gain an in-depth understanding of how the intersection of socioeconomic status, age and gender shape their identities, experiences and practices. The book highlights the impact of neoliberalism on the women’s attempts at distinction and is a timely contribution to debates on multilingualism and issues of gender and socioeconomic status.

Author : Qi Gao,Pang-tin Tân
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : UVA:X002243872

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An Introduction to Taiwanese Colloquial by Qi Gao,Pang-tin Tân Pdf

Author : Stacy Fang-Ching Teng
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015075653603

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A Reference Grammar of Puyuma, an Austronesian Language of Taiwan by Stacy Fang-Ching Teng Pdf

"The Puyuma people reside in southeastern Taiwan in Taitung City and Peinan Township in Taitung County. There are still fourteen extant Formosan (Austronesian) languages in Taiwan, but only thirteen indigenous groups are officially recognised by the Taiwanese government. The present study investigates the Nanwang dialect of the Puyuma language, spoken by the people in Nanwang and Paoshang Suburbs of Taitung City in southern Taiwan. The aim of this grammar is to describe the phonology and morphosyntax of Puyuma. The work is descriptive in nature, and the theoretical framework employed is Basic Linguistic Theory (BLT). BLT emphasises the need to describe each language in its own terms, rather than imposing on it concepts derived from other languages. Thus, in this study, the author abandons traditional terms used by linguists studying Philippine-type languages, such as agent focus, patient focus, locative focus, or instrumental focus, and replaces them with the terms like transitive and intransitive that are more familiar to most of the worlds linguists."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Debra Ziegeler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514091

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Converging Grammars by Debra Ziegeler Pdf

This volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in the context of Singapore English, and poses the question of identifying a construction in contact when the lexicon is derived from one language and the syntax from another. Case studies are illustrated in which the possibility of a 'merger'-construction is offered to resolve such problems. The book is intended for students of construction theories, variation studies, or any researcher of contact grammars

Author : Stephen A. Wurm,Peter Mühlhäusler,Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1903 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110819724

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Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas by Stephen A. Wurm,Peter Mühlhäusler,Darrell T. Tryon Pdf

“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.

Author : Pin-Chih Chi
Publisher : Bite-Size Taiwanese
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0996398228

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Short Takes by Pin-Chih Chi Pdf

SHORT TAKES: A Scene-based Taiwanese Vocabulary Builder lets you pick up new vocabulary in a fun, context-based way. Each lesson is based on 10 high-frequency core vocabulary words brought together in an easy-to-visualize scene, which makes learning new words simple and enjoyable. Each core vocabulary word is presented with closely-related words, sentence patterns, common pairings, or example usages, so you'll learn the word within the broader context of the language. Every lesson also features an imaginative short story designed to help foster a more intuitive sense of grammar, usage, and tone for core vocabulary words. Rendered in both English and natural Taiwanese sentences, the short story highlights core vocabulary words in their full native context. Additional cultural notes related to the theme for each lesson provide even more context and background, helping you retain the new vocabulary and discover more of Taiwan's history, food, people, and society. This vocabulary builder is well-suited for self-study by beginning and elementary learners of Taiwanese. Taiwanese (a form of Southern Min or Min Nan language, related to Amoy and Hokkien, and sometimes also referred to as Hoklo) is a language spoken by about 70% of the population in Taiwan. Features include: 1) 800+ commonly used words and phrases in 20 thematic lessons, 2) Explanations on grammar, usage, and cultural background, 3) Audio for core vocabulary words, related words, short stories, and exercises available for download, 4) Index with fully cross-referenced entries and definitions, 5) Tone changes (tone sandhi) marked throughout text with detailed tone numbers provided in answer key, 6) Exercises for both writing and speaking, to help reinforce understanding of core vocabulary, 7) Official Romanization (Tai-lo) and character script used by Taiwan's Ministry of Education

Author : Henning Klöter
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 3447050934

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Written Taiwanese by Henning Klöter Pdf

Written Taiwanese provides the first comprehensive account of the different ways in which Taiwanese (i.e., the Southern Min language of Taiwan) has been represented in written sources. The scope of the study ranges from early popular writings in closely related dialects to present-day forms of written Taiwanese. The study treats written Taiwanese both as a linguistic and as a socio-political phenomenon. The linguistic description focuses on the interrelation between written units and Taiwanese speech and covers various linguistic subfields, such as Taiwanese lexicography, phonology, and morphosyntax. The socio-political analysis explores the historical backgrounds which have led to different conventions in writing Taiwanese.

Author : Wilbert R. Shenk
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608998722

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Exploring Church Growth by Wilbert R. Shenk Pdf

During the past twenty years the phenomenon of church growth--especially as it has been known under the dynamic leadership of Donald McGavran and the School of World Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary--has resulted in an impressive array of books, articles, reports, and theses. While freely acknowledging their debut to the church growth school, the contributors to this volume wish to explore further the premises, principles, and goals of church growth. Firmly convinced that church growth is more than empirical data and effective methods, and that there is nothing approaching a complete book of church growth, they aim not simply to offer definitive answers but rather to open up fresh lines of inquiry--historical, experiential, methodological, and theological. Thus, while interacting with previous studies, the authors view their work as a constructive contribution to the search for a more adequate understanding of church growth patterns. Contributors to this volume include Alfred C. Krass, Harvie M. Conn, Orlando E. Costas, John H. Yoder, Harry R. Boer, and C. RenŽ Padilla.

Author : N. J. Enfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521765442

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Mainland Southeast Asian Languages by N. J. Enfield Pdf

A concise introduction to the languages of mainland Southeast Asia that provides a new look at this unique area.

Author : Grace C.L. Mak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351387118

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Women, Education and Development in Asia by Grace C.L. Mak Pdf

This reissue (1996) examines four interrelated aspects of schooling for women in ten Asian countries: the development experience of a country and how it affects education and women’s status; the types of educational opportunities available to women; if the greater exposure to education results in greater participation in the public sphere; the impact of education and economic participation on women’s domestic status.