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An Examination of Affixes in Middle Chinese
Peking University Press · 2025
The book is divided into two parts. The upper part is a theoretical discussion that, on the basis of carefully drawing on and examining previous resea…
A Study of the Modern Japanese Quotation System
Peking University Press · 2025
This book presents a descriptive study of the Japanese quotation system. A Japanese quotation sentence usually consists of three parts: the quoted spe…
Collected Studies in Chinese Vocabulary and Grammar
The Commercial Press · 2025
Chinese Lexicon and Grammar: A Cultivation Collection collects forty of Professor Ma Zhen's published papers. Most concern the study of function words…
A Study of Semantic-Functional Changes in Chinese Modal Verbs of Possibility from the Pre-Qin Period to the Two Han Dynasties
Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House · 2023
On the basis of a detailed examination of textual examples, this book focuses on the development paths and mechanisms of modal verbs such as neng, ke,…
Essays on Modern Chinese Function Words (Third Edition)
· 2025
This book is a collection of case studies on function words in modern Chinese, comprising 26 papers—15 by Ma Zhen, 9 by Lu Jianming, and 2 co-authored…
A Formal Semantic Analysis of Focus Adverbs and Interrogative Words in Chinese
Peking University Press · 2025
This book explores two of the most frequently used focus adverbs in Modern Chinese, dou and jiu, as well as interrogative words such as shenme and na …
Lecture Notes on Grammar for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
Peking University Press · 2025
Following his macro-level study of the grammar system for teaching Chinese as a foreign language, the author here presents a comprehensive, systematic…