Publications

Publication details [#6204]

Li, Charles N. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1984. Mandarin. In Chisholm, William S., Louis T. Milic and John A.C. Greppin, eds. Interrogativity. A colloquium on the grammar, typology and pragmatics of questions in seven diverse languages, Cleveland, Ohio, October 5th 1981-May 3rd 1982. John Benjamins. pp. 47–61.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

interrogative1 | language typology

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Annotation

A survey of the basic typological properties of Mandarin and the grammar of its interrogative contructions.