Parts of Speech in Chinese and How to Identify Them

doi:10.1017/9781108329019.007

5 - Parts of Speech in Chinese and How to Identify Them

from Part Two - Morpho-lexical Issues in Chinese

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2022

Weidong Zhan and

Edited by

I-Hsuan Chen and

Chu-Ren Huang: Affiliation:
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yen-Hwei Lin: Affiliation:
Michigan State University
I-Hsuan Chen: Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Yu-Yin Hsu: Affiliation:
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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The purpose of classifying words into parts of speech is to better represent how they combine with each other. From a structural point of view, this chapter introduces the principles of defining parts of speech in Chinese and gives the details of how they are defined. The overlapping of parts of speech is examined, with an extended discussion about how to handle the overlapping classes. Studies on the same issue but from other perspectives are briefly reviewed.

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word classification part of speech definitional criteria syntactic and semantic properties class overlap

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Information: The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics , pp. 97 - 113

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108329019.007 [Opens in a new window]

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