The goal of the course is for students to have a general understanding of the lexical categories and important grammatical constructions in Mandarin Chinese and to be able to conduct independent research in this area. The course first offers a general review of the organization of grammar and the essential lexical categories in Chinese. We then explore a selected range of important grammatical constructions in Mandarin, including numeral classifiers, types of questions, adjectives, prepositions, localizers, gei, VO constructions, bei and ba, argument realization, among others.

The goal of the course is for students to have a general understanding of the lexical categories and important grammatical constructions in Mandarin Chinese and to be able to conduct independent research in this area. The course first offers a general review of the organization of grammar and the essential lexical categories in Chinese. We then explore a selected range of important grammatical constructions in Mandarin, including numeral classifiers, types of questions, adjectives, prepositions, localizers, gei, VO constructions, bei and ba, argument realization, among others.

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