Index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Chapter 1. Chinese discourse from diverse perspectives 1
5. Chapter 2. New words in contemporary Chinese language use 5
6. Chapter 3. Usage based language change and exemplar representations in Beijing Mandarin Chinese 27
7. Chapter 4. Contextual variations of internal and external modifications in Chinese requests 57
8. Chapter 5. Some interactional functions of Yinwei -clauses in Mandarin Chinese conversation 81
9. Chapter 6. Preliminaries to delicate matters 105
10. Chapter 7. Chinese near-synonyms jian (建), zao (造), gai (蓋) ‘to build’ revisited 137
11. Chapter 8. Constraints on the collocational behaviors of Chinese near-synonyms 155
12. Chapter 9. Genericity and sentences with an AP state complement in Mandarin Chinese 177
13. Chapter 10. Kinship metaphors in the Chinese construction A shi B zhi fu/mu 199
14. Chapter 11. The classification of Chinese time expressions from Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspectives 221
15. Chapter 12. Being a Kam in China 245
16. Chapter 13. Specialised corpora for Chinese language education in Singapore 265
17. Index 297