A Grammar for Component Combination in Chinese Characters (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book A Grammar for Component Combination in Chinese Characters (Classic Reprint) written by B. Kirk Rankin III and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Grammar for Component Combination in Chinese Characters A linguistic analysis of one aspect of the structure of Chinese characters is presented. The analysis is an extension into two dimensions of a general approach to one-dimensional language study Results of the analysis are in the form of a three level generative grammar. The first level formalizes restrictions governing the general complexity of well formed Chinese characters; the second level formalizes co-occurrence constraints among character components and the particular spatial arrangement of these com ponents in classes of characters; the third level constitutes a procedure for selecting actual components from a lexicon. Finally an evaluation of the grammar is presented, in terms of criteria used in evaluating natural language grammars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.