THE USE OF MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTIVES IN MODERN CHINESE IN CHINESE TEXTBOOKS FOR TEACHING CHINESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE—TAKING “HAN YU JIAO CHENG” AND “NEW PRACTICAL CHINESE READER” AS SAMPLES
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The research on multiple attributives in modern Chinese is significant for Chinese grammar research and the field of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. The previous research on multiple attributives is mainly based on empirical summaries, and no specific data supports the research conclusions. This current study explores the use of multiple attributives in Chinese textbooks for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language by comparing “Han Yu Jiao Cheng” and the “New Practical Chinese Reader”. The data shows that two attributives appear most frequently in these Chinese textbooks for foreign students. The frequencies of three attributives and four and above multiple attributives are arranged in descending order, with the higher the number of multiple attributives, the lower their frequency of occurrence in the textbooks. Through semantic analysis, it was found that the structure of “quantity + attribute” is the most frequently used in these two textbooks, followed by “ownership + attribute”; the structures with the highest frequency of use of three attributives are “quantity + attribute + attribute” and “possession + property + attribute”; and there is no obvious advantage in the semantic word order distribution of four or more attributives.
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