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Master Sentence Structure Across Four Languages – A Scholarly Monograph
Dive deep into syntactic analysis with this rigorous monograph, which systematically examines sentence construction in Russian, English, Modern Chinese, and Ancient Chinese. The author, Arseny Vladimirovich Skvortsov, adopts a bottom-up approach, building from smaller units to larger structures. When categorizing phrases, the focus is on syntactic relationships between head and dependent words, rather than morphological ones.
Beyond theory, the work offers practical value: it classifies common student errors in analyzing Modern Chinese syntax and provides concrete recommendations to avoid them. The book also explores the extraction of lexical units from Chinese sentences and draws an intriguing analogy between the structure of complex lexemes in Russian and Chinese.
A unique highlight is the parallel drawn between the method of sections in structural mechanics and top-down sentence analysis, leading to a proposed classification of phrase types based on component cohesion.
This volume is recommended for advanced students, postgraduates studying Chinese syntax, and teachers or translators working between Russian and Chinese. It also holds interest for Russian language specialists, as it critically reexamines certain tenets of traditional Russian grammar.
Price: 1155.00 RUR