Maybe There Are No Subject-Predicate Sentences in Chinese.
In this essay, I argue for the conclusion that the Chinese sentences that are regularly translated into subject-predicate sentences in English may be understood as all non-subject-predicate sentences. My argument is based on the premise that some grammatical features are crucial to yield the sense o...
| Publicado en: | Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 277 - 288 |
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