The Grammar of Chinese Characters: Productive Knowledge of Formal Patterns in an Orthographic System - James Myers

Anybody who reads or writes Chinese characters knows that they obey a grammar of sorts: though numerous, they are built out of a much smaller set of constituents, often interpretable in meaning or pronunciation, that are themselves built out of an even smaller set of strokes. This book goes far beyond these basic facts to show that Chinese characters truly have a productive and psychologically real lexical grammar of the same sort seen in spoken and signed languages, with non-trivial analogs of morphology (the combination of potentially interpretable constituents), phonology (formal regulariti The Grammar of Chinese Characters: Productive Knowledge of Formal Patterns in an Orthographic System - James Myers od authora James Myers a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz