A Study of Modern Chinese Typological Characteristics From the Perspective of Linguistic Typology

Authors

  • Dan Du Shanghai University of Electric Power
  • Wei Chen Zhejiang Gongshang University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1107.12

Keywords:

linguistic typology, typological characteristics, modern Chinese

Abstract

Based on Greenberg (1965), Dixon (2014), Liu (2017) and Lu and Jin (2015), this article analyzes and interprets the modern Chinese typological characteristics from the perspective of linguistic typology such as the language types, word order type, syntactic type, type of argument configuration, tense-aspect type and so on.

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2021-07-01

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