A Corpus-Based Study of Adverbial Clauses in Mandarin Chinese Conversations : A Preliminary Analysis

Finally, though preferential to one fictional genre, po(wei) is biased against General Fiction (p-value= 0.008 ). This sub-section shall again consider each intensifier

In terms of the similarities, firstly, most studies in both languages focused on the conceptual metaphor HuMAN BEINGS ArE ANIMALS and the evaluation of the animal metaphorical

For example, beng, bie, buyao, mo, wu2, wu3 and xiu are typically used in imperatives; fei occurs most frequently as a prefix or in double negation structures see section 7;