A Student Grammar of Chinese

Yongping Zhu is Associate Professor and Department Chair (2014–2021) at the University of Notre Dame, as well as President of Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (2021–2022). Notable publications include Linguistic Analysis of Meaning and Syntactic Change in the Grammaticalization of Chinese Prepositions (2010) and A Teacher's Manual for the Instruction of Chinese (co-authored, 2018). Chu-Ren Huang is Chair Professor of the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is fascinated by what language can tell us about human cognition and our collective reactions to natural and social environments. Related publications include A Reference Grammar of Chinese (2016), Mandarin Chinese Words and Parts of Speech (2017), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics (2019), and The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics (2022).

• Preface; Glossary of grammar terms and abbreviations; The meanings of special symbols; Unit I. Introduction: 1. Chinese and Mandarin; 2. Chinese grammar; 3. Sound system; 4. Words and Chinese characters; Unit II. Parts of Speech: 5. Introduction of parts of speech in Chinese; 6. Nouns; 7. Numbers; 8. Measure words (Classifiers); 9. Pronouns; 10. Verbs; 11. Modal verbs; 12. Adjectives; 13. Adverbs; 14. Prepositions; 15. Conjunctions; 16. Particles; Unit III. Simple Sentences: 17. Introduction to simple sentences; 18. Elements of a sentence (1): subject and predicate; 19. Elements of a sentence (2): object; 20. Elements of a sentence (3): Complement; 21. Elements of a sentence (4): Attributive and adverbial; Unit IV. Special Sentences: 22. The 把 bǎ construction; 23. The被 bèi construction; 24. Questions; 25. Comparisons; 26. Existential sentences; 27. Emphatic sentences; Unit V. Complicated Sentences: 28. Compound sentences; 29. Complex sentences; Appendices.