Introduction of the course, Basic tenets of functional syntax, Chinese vs. English

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Week 01Introduction of the course
Basic tenets of functional syntax
Chinese vs. English
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Week 02Functional approaches to Chinese
Sentence structure:
Topic-Comment
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Week 03Functionalism and Chinese GrammarWatch Online
Week 04Cognitive basis for Categorization/categoriality
Why classifiers?
Why VRs?
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Week 05Iconicity: word order in ChineseWatch Online
Week 06Aspect in ChineseWatch Online
Week 07Discourse PragmaticWatch Online
Week 08Discourse, grammar and grammaticalizationWatch Online
Week 09Emergent grammar : Article systemWatch Online
Week 10Emergent grammar : DemonstrativesWatch Online
Week 11Conversational analysisWatch Online
Week 12Corpus approach to near-synonymsWatch Online
Week 13Corpus approach to verbal semanticsWatch Online
Week 14Construction grammarWatch Online
Week 15Constructional approach to VRC constructionWatch Online
Week 17Subjectivity and semantic changeWatch Online