Course Objectives: By the end of the semester, students should: 1. have a basic understanding of Chinese syntactic terms; 2. be familiar with the grammatical structure of Chinese; 3. be able to analyse samples of relevant data for themselves; 4. be able to explain common grammatical errors in Chinese;

Huang, C-T James, Audrey Li, and Yafei Li. (2009). The Syntax of Chinese.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Additional course reading list:

Chao, Yuen Ren. (1968). A grammar of spoken Chinese. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Li, Charles N. and Sandra A. Thompson. (1981). Mandarin Chinese: a
functional reference grammar. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Radford, A. (1997). Syntax: A Minimalist introduction. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
_______ (2004). English syntax: an Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.