Intermediate Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook / Edition 2

by Po-Ching Yip, Don Rimmington

Overview

Intermediate Chinese is the ideal reference and practice book for students with some knowledge of the language. Each of the 25 units deals with a particular grammatical point and provides associated exercises. Features include:

• clear, accessible format
• many useful language examples
• jargon-free grammar explanations
• sample drills and exercises with full answer key.

All Chinese entries are presented in both pinyin romanisation and Chinese characters, and are accompanied, in most cases, by English translations to facilitate self-tuition in both the spoken and the written language. This new edition also includes a glossary of vocabulary and aglossary of grammatical terms.

Intermediate Chinese reviews the principal elements presented in its sister volume, Basic Chinese, and introduces more complicated structures. The two books form a compendium of the essentials of Chinese grammar.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415486316
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/26/2009
Series:	Grammar Workbooks Series
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

Yip Po-Ching is a Research Fellow, City University of Hong Kong

Don Rimmington is Emeritus Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1 The ba Structure

2 The béi Structure

3 Dative Constructions with Direct and Indirect Objects

3 Causative Constructions

5 Serial Constructions

6

Existence Sentences

7 Subject-Predicate and Topic comment Sentences

8 Sentence Particle le

9 Abbreviated Sentences

10 Rhetorical Questions

11 Conjunctions and Conjunctives Linking Clauses in Compound Sentences (1)

12 Conjunctions and Conjunctives LInking Clauses in Compound Sentences (2)

13 conjunctions Linking Words or Phrases (Summary)

14 Attributives (Summary)

15 Adverbials (Summary)

16 de, de, de (Summary)

17 'Every', 'Each' --

mei, gè and Indefinite Pronouns

18 comparisons with bi and méiyou (Summary)

19 Various Uses of you (Summary)

20 Idiomatic Uses of shì (Summary)

21 The Aspect Marker le

22 The Aspect

Marker zhe, zài, guò (Summary)

23 The Idiomatic Uses of lái zhe, bei, ma, bà le, me and ba

24 The Idiomatic Uses of ne

25 Onomatopoeia and Interjection

Key to Exercises