Quadri-Syllabic Schematic Idioms in Chinese: Description and Acquisition

By: Li, Liu

This book offers an insightful description of the productive behavior of four-character schematic idiomatic expressions (SIEs) in Mandarin and explores from a usage-based perspective the issue of how young learners acquire the partial productivity of these expressions. The beginning chapters contribute to a constructional understanding of the quadri-syllabic SIEs and an in-depth distributional analysis of three typical schematic patterns based...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811972044
• ISBN13: 9789811972041
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"