Sinitic Grammar
Subtitle: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (Oxford Linguistics)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 14, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9780198299776
First sentence: Even though Sinitic languages are spoken by more than one billion people, very little research has been carried out on the synchronic grammar of major languages and dialect groups of Chinese, apart from standard Mandarin or putonghua , and Cantonese to a lesser extent.