Chinese Language Theory Textbook: Challenges and Solutions

Vladimir Kurdyumov

doi:10.3897/ap.e4.e0554

ARPHA Proceedings 4: 554-563, doi: 10.3897/ap.e4.e0554

Chinese Language Theory Textbook: Challenges and Solutions

Vladimir A. Kurdyumov

Corresponding author: Vladimir Kurdyumov ( kurdyumovva@mgpu.ru )

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Citation: Kurdyumov VA (2021) Chinese Language Theory Textbook: Challenges and Solutions. In: Tareva E, Bokova T (Eds) TSNI 2021 - Textbook: Focus on Students’ National Identity, Moscow City University, Russia. April 20 - April 24 2021. ARPHA Proceedings 4: 554-563. https://doi.org/10.3897/ap.e4.e0554

Abstract

Proposed is a project (or principles) of a new version for the textbook of theoretical Chinese grammar based on the Predicative Concept of Language and continuous to the 2005-2006 edition. The book would be more systematic and will consider in more detail the non-equivalence of the language levels in Chinese and in Russian; the Topic-prominent typology of Chinese will be will be considered in more depth, as well as the variety of regional variants of Chinese; the impossibility of assimilating the Topic-prominent grammar to the same in the inflectional Subject-prominent languages will be systematically argued.

Keywords

Chinese language; Topic-Comment; language levels