Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Paperback, 2 ed)

Acknowledgements  List of Abbreviations  Preface  Introduction  1. Nouns and Nominalisations  2. Numerals and Measures  3. Pronouns, Pronominals and Pro-words  4. Adjectives as Attributives and Predicatives  5. Attributives other than Adjectives  6. Action Verbs  7. Action Verbs and Time  8. Action Verbs and Locations  9. Adverbials  10. Complements  11. Coverbs  12. 把 b? Constructions  13. The Passive Voice and 被 bei Constructions  14. Chain Constructions  15. The Verb 是 shi  16. The Verb 有y?u  17. Verbs that Take Verbal or Clausal Objects  18. Modal Verbs  19. Telescopic Constructions  20. Narration, Description, Exposition and Evaluation  21. 了 le-Expository Sentences  22. Conjunctions and Conjunctives  23. Interrogative Sentences  24. Imperatives and Exclamations  25. Abbreviations and Omissions  26. Prosody and Syntax  27. Stylistic Considerations in Syntactic Constructions  28. Morphology and Syntax (I)  29. Morphology and Syntax (II)  30. Intralingual Transpositions  31. Interlingual Conversions  Bibliography  Index