The morphology of Chinese : a linguistic and cognitive approach /

Also the author of A Linguistic Investigation of Aphasic Chinese Speech (1993) and New Approaches to Chinese Word Formation: Morphology, Phonology and the Lexicon in Modern and Ancient Chinese (1997), Packard (Univ. of Illinois) states that his goal in the present volume is "to demonstrate that speakers of Chinese compose and understand sentence constituents using rules of syntax, and that the smallest representatives of those constituents have the size, feel, shape and properties of words." He uses both theoretical and descriptive approaches and studies words of the spoken Chinese language. This first comprehensive study of the morphology of Chinese will help readers gain further understanding of Chinese on the one hand and word universals on the other. Useful for those who study linguistics, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition as well as Chinese, this volume is recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty, who will especially appreciate Packard's list of references. Y. L. Walls; Simon Fraser University