Words, words, words.

[sobriaebritas]

Hello, everybody
Linguistically bent learners of Chinese might find the attached file interesting and informative. It can also be found here (I don't know whether both pdfs are identical ): http://referenceworks.brillonline.c...word-and-wordhood-modern-COM_00000460?s.num=0

Hope you enjoy it!


Article Table of Contents

1. 1. Introduction
2. 2. Affixes in Chinese
3. 3. Defining Words in Chinese
4. 4. Giving up Words in Chinese
5. 5. Elastic Word Length
6. 6. zì 字, Morphemes, and Words
7. 7. Words versus Phrases
8. 8. Summary
9. Bibliography