Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar

Claudia Ross, Professor Emeritus of Chinese, College of the Holy Cross.Jing-Heng Sheng Ma, Professor Emeritus of Chinese, Wellesley College.Pei-Chia Chen, Senior Lecturer and Academic Coordinator of the Chinese program, University of California San Diego.Baozhang He, Associate Professor Emeritus of Chinese, College of the Holy Cross.Meng Yeh, Teaching Professor of Chinese, Rice University.

• Part A Structures1 Overview of Pronunciation and Pinyin Romanization2 Syllable, Meaning, and Word3 The Chinese Writing System: An Overview4 Phrase order in the Mandarin sentence 5 Nouns6 Numbers7 Specifiers and Demonstratives8 Classifiers9 Noun Phrases10 Adjectives and Adjectival Verbs11 Stative Verbs12 Modal Verbs13 Action Verbs14 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases15 Adverbs16 Conjunctions17 Aspect18 Resulative verbs 19 Directional verbs 20 把 ba sentences: The 'disposal' construction21 The passivePart B Situations and Functions22 Names, Kinship Terms, Titles, and Terms of Address23 Introductions24 Greetings and Goodbyes25 Basic Strategies for Communication26 Telecommunications and e-communications: Telephones, the internet, and social media27 Negating Information28 Asking questions, answering questions, and reporting questions29 Expressing Identification, Possession, and Existence 30 Describing People, Places, and Things31 Describing How Actions are Performed32 Indicating Result, Conclusion, Potential, and Extent33 Making Comparisons34 Talking About the Present35 Talking About Habitual Actions36 Talking About the Future37 Indicating Completion and Talking About the Past38 Talking About Change, New Situations, and Changing Situations39 Talking About Duration and Frequency 40 Expressing Additional Information41 Expressing Contrast42 Expressing Sequence43 Expressing Simultaneous Situations44 Expressing Cause and Effect or Reason and Result45 Expressing Conditions46. Expressing both, all, every, any, none, not any, and no matter how47 Expressing Location and Distance48 Talking about Movement, Directions, and Means of Transportation49 Talking about Clock Time and Calendar Time 50 Expressing Obligation and Prohibitions51 Expressing Commands and Permission52 Expressing Ability and Possibility53 Expressing Desires, Needs, Preferences, and Willingness54 Expressing Knowledge, Advice, and Opinions55 Expressing Fear, Worry, and Anxiety56 Expressing Speaker Attitudes and Perspectives with interjections and final particles57 Topic, Focus, and Emphasis58 Guest and Host59 Giving and Responding to Compliments 60 Expressing Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction61 Expressing Gratitude and Responding to Expressions of Gratitude62 Invitations, Requests, and Refusals63 Expressing Apologies, Regrets, Sympathy, and bad news64 Expressing Congratulations and Good WishesIndex