Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2011-2012
LING 321 - CHINESE: SYNTAX & SEMANTICS
Long Title: STRUCTURE OF CHINESE: SYNTAX & SEMANTICS
Department: Linguistics
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Examination of syntactic and semantic features of Chinese with special attention to contrastive analysis of selected topics of Chinese and English, including expressions of tense and aspect, conditional and counterfactual, word formation (morphology), the notion of syntactic category, grammaticalization, metaphor, Chinese writing system and sociolinguistics. Taught in English. Cross-list: CHIN 321.