Reviews for Chinese Discourse Le: Discourse Construction and Pragmatic Marking in Chinese

The average rating for Chinese Discourse Le: Discourse Construction and Pragmatic Marking in Chinese based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-03-30 00:00:00 Kelly Sellers A fantastic book that explores the various aspects of metaphor variation throughout cultures. Though it is a little redundant, I find that this only cements the ideas presented. It appears to be based on several of his earlier journal articles and is simply a synthesis of the ideas he has presented before, though many of the more useful examples have been left out. (they are easily found by searching his papers for the last five years or so)

Review # 2 was written on 2016-02-23 00:00:00 Martin Antonio Gomez Gonzalez This book was taught to me in my undergraduate linguistics class and as far as my interest in syntax goes it was way to much to even comprehend. I can only tell from my experience but it is definitely not suited for beginners in this field of studies. There are a lot of examples from sometimes rather exotic languages and the variety of contradictions was confusing. At least it contains summaries of every chapter to convey the general ideas. If studied in detail and with due diligence, the book can really give an extensive amount of information about the minimalist approach.