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Light, Timothy – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1987
Discusses main ideas of papers presented that reflect the new directions explored in the field of Chinese linguistics. Current areas of study include tonal distinctions in dialect studies, contrastive analysis of Taiwanese and standard Chinese verb phrase structures, and the application of old Chinese morphological grammar to characteristics of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies