The Morphology of Chinese: A Linguistic and Cognitive Approach

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This book aims to dispel the myth that Chinese "doesn't have words" but instead "has characters." Jerome Packard challenges the common belief that Chinese has no morphology, demonstrating how analysis of Chinese word formation enhances our understanding of word universals in natural language. His book describes the intimate relationship between words and their components and offers new insights into their evolution. Models are offered for how Chinese words are stored in the mental lexicon and processed in natural speech.

The Morphology of Chinese: A Linguistic and Cognitive Approach Review

Please note that my comments will reflect my being neither a qualified nor experienced linguist. I purchased this book because I have found guides to the morphology of a language to be a useful approach (one of many) to learning a language. Another "morphology" I found handy in language learning was The Morphology of Biblical Greek by William D. Mounce (ISBN: 0310226368).

Languages can generally be divided into the following units (of ascending size) for the purpose of study: phoneme (sound), morpheme (meaningful unit - word or part of a word), syntax (grammar) and semantics (text/story). This may be modelled in different ways by different theorists. This book is, of course, focussing on the second of these units, that of the morpheme. It looks at words, parts of words, particles and focusses on the very meaning of the concept "word" itself.

I've already mentioned my lack of linguistics background. If you are approaching this book as a linguist, you'll get much more out of it than me, at many more levels. A simple (!) learner of Chinese can also benefit, in the sense that s/he can gain a greater "feel" for the language using linguistics, as opposed to grammar - though the two at times overlap. But read on!

Here in China I showed a number of native speakers some charts/tables from this book. They were unanimous that they had never heard of quite a few of the example words (usually disyllables). Admittedly, the words may still be used in other areas of China, however, I recommend you proceed with the same caution. Before memorising lists of words from the tables, ensure they are in common usage, at least somewhere in China or a Chinese community. Otherwise you're wasting your time majoring on minors when it is more profitable to learn words in common use.

I felt a little confused as to what is classified as an affix. In two places (possibly more) there are brief lists (I've omitted the characters themselves, but have included the tone number, with neutral tones unmarked):

Page 160: "...bound, affix-type word-forming elements like -tou, -zi, -hua4, -zhe3, -xing4, -le and -men."

Page 299: "...grammatical affixes: e.g., -le, -zhe [which is rare in modern Chinese], -guo, -de, bu-, and -men..."

I felt that, though this isn't a grammar as such, some of these categories could have been placed as a chart in an appendix to increase the overall usability of the book. Even better, perhaps a chapter at the beginning to explain some of the linguistic terms (for "gestalt word", read "compiled word" -ci2) and frameworks. In my opinion, that would enable learners of Chinese to gain so much more from this volume. A chapter like that could be comfortably ignored by linguists (whose purpose escapes me at times - I guess "someone's gotta do it").

The author, Jerome "Jerry" Packard, is currently professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).

In writing up this review I must acknowledge that I visited listserv linguistlist, and you'd do well to do the same, either directly or through a search engine with a few appropriate key words.

Not being a linguist I didn't want to post an unfair review, so depending on your needs: Highly recommended - 5 stars.

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The Newbery Companion: Booktalk and Related Materials for Newbery Medal and Honor Books

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A wealth of information about Newbery award winners and honor books is at your fingertips with this new release. You'll find detailed plot summaries, booktalks, updated information about the winning titles and authors, suggestions for read-alikes, and ideas for how to introduce the books to young readers. Entries are arranged chronologically from 1922 through 2001. A history of the award and a discussion of the award process are also included.

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This book is a must for anyone interested in becoming a teacher. The book is filled with short synopsis of all Newbery winner, as well as runner up books. Excellent reading.

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Optometry Law

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A LAW BOOK FOR OPTOMETRY STUDENTS AND OPTOMETRISTS

Optometry students and optometrists will find this book very useful in serving as a quick reference of how optometry and law interrelated in an optometric practice; therefore, providing the optometry students and optometrists an essential knowledge in optometry law for protection against a malpractice lawsuit. Generally, it is easier to prevent a malpractice lawsuit than to defend it.



For a quick, easy reading and reference of:

� A Legal History of Optometry in America

� Fundamental Laws in Optometry

� � Clinical Optometry and the Law

� Risk Management

• Legal Tips

� � Law References

• Summary of Optometry Laws by State, including Washington, DC

Optometry Law Review

This new text by Stephen Eap, O.D., J.D., serves as an excellent reference to the numerous laws that govern the practice of optometry including negligence, assault, battery, informed consent, fraud, defamation, contract and liability. These important topics are described in a clear and concise manner. Dr. Eap then focuses on several clinical entities including contact lenses, binocular vision, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and dissects each with reference to the law. The final chapters deal with risk management and legal tips for the practitioner. In this age of consumerism and expanded scope of practice, the book serves as an important reference for the legal and ethical implications of providing quality eye and vision health care.

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Pain Medicine and Management: Just the Facts

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A quick reference to the management of pain for specialists as well as general medical practitioners and residents. Written in a concise bulleted format, the content is limited to only the essential facts necessary for assessment and treatment of common pain conditions and presentations. A perfect review tool for both the anesthesia and pain medicine board exams.

Pain Medicine and Management: Just the Facts Review

Numerous mistakes that should have been found in the most basic copy review. Page 95 for example - "Biopatch dressing impregnated with Hibiclens" - one branded product impregnated with another branded product?! Biopatch is a delivery system for chlorhexidine gluconate, not Hibiclens, which also uses CHG. Takes away from the credibility of the book.

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PMP/CAPM Exam Preparation Guide

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Business & Economics/Project Management

When you're studying for the PMP?/CAPM? exam, the most important thing to manage is your time

This practical guide will help you study for the Project Management Professional (PMP? )/Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM? ) Certification Exam more efficiently and productively. It is aligned with and references PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition (PMBOK ? Guide).

Unlike other review materials that are organized according to knowledge areas and cover the forty-four processes almost equally, this guide divides materials into process groups or domains and weights your review materials the way PMP?/CAPM? weights the exam. For example, approximately 11% of the exam questions will be on the Initiation Phase, so approximately 11% of the review materials in this book covers the Initiation Phase. The guide flows like projects flow. There are six sections:
* Initiation Phase
* Planning Phase
* Execution Phase
* Monitor and Control Phase
* Closing Phase
* Professional Responsibility

This is not an unabridged "everything you ever need to know about project management" guide. It focuses exclusively on information you need to know to pass the exam and features:
* A total of 175 pre-review questions and 175 post-review questions, along with complete answers and explanations
* The facts, presented clearly and concisely with no frills, no fine print, and no digression
* Terms, definitions, formulas, charts, diagrams, and lists that help you retain the information and pass the test
* Advice on how to study and how to take the actual exam, plus a comprehensive index, so it's easy to find information you want to review

PMP/CAPM Exam Preparation Guide Review

If you are preparing for the CAPM exam, then this book is not for you. The CAPM *ONLY* covers the material in the PMBOK 3rd edition. This book covers other theories, definitions, and math equations. You will waste your time studying some of the material here and not cover the PMBOK material enough. I recommend to read the PMBOK 2 or 3 times and also buy the Q&A's for the PMBOK 3rd edtion. Perhaps the PMP test is different.

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Practical Synthetic Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Principles, and Techniques

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A hands-on guide to assist in the planning and execution of synthetic reactions in the laboratory

Despite the maturity of organic chemistry, it can still be very challenging to identify optimal methods for synthetic transformations that perform as well in real-world manufacturing processes as they do in the laboratory. This detailed and accessible guide attempts to address this vexing issue and deliver proven methodologies practicing synthetic chemists will find valuable for identifying reaction conditions that work reliably over the broadest possible range of substrates.

Practical Synthetic Organic Chemistry:

• Provides a practical guide to strategically planning and executing chemical syntheses for the bench chemist in industry

• Discusses information that is not common knowledge beyond the boundaries of process chemistry groups, such as the synthetic routes of selected contemporary pharmaceutical drugs and practical solvents, as well as green chemistry concepts

• Highlights key reactions, including substitutions, additions, eliminations, rearrangements, oxidations, and reductions

• Addresses basic principles, mechanisms, advantages and disadvantages of the methodology, and techniques for achieving laboratory success

Incorporating such an extraordinary wealth of information on organic chemistry and its related fields into one complete volume distinguishes Practical Synthetic Organic Chemistry as an incomparable desktop reference for professionals� and an invaluable study aid for students.

Practical Synthetic Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Principles, and Techniques Review

Practical Organic Chemistry is a superb collection of modern organic transformations (chapters 1-13) and useful associated information at the end (chapters 14-20). The synthesis chapters are broken down into general reaction classes and further separated into reaction subclasses or strategies. This level of organization puts the emphasis on informative examples rather than on a laundry list of reagents. In this regard, the text resembles Carey & Sundberg Part B, but with a crisper, more concise and more updated appearance. In addition, POC is also about 100 pages shorter and, as a result, easier to consult. Later chapters include useful topics such as "Access to Chirality", which summarizes chiral pool, catalysis, resolution etc, "Green Chemistry", which features guiding principles and specific examples and "Naming Carbocycles & Heterocycles", which is a nice summary of various cyclic organic architectures with both IUPAC and the more generally useful common names. A particularly notable chapter is 18 "pKA", which contains a discussion and comprehensive tabulation of the acidities of organic molecules. This type of summary, which has circulated among organic chemistry grad students and postdocs for decades, is more complete and useful than ever, given the central role of pKas for comparing electron-withdrawing capacity, anion stability, and a host of other effects that are useful for troubleshooting and designing synthetic pathways. And I have to mention chapter 15 "Synthetic Route Development of Selected Comtemporary Pharmaceutical Drugs", which provides concise summaries of initial medicinal chemistry routes the are evolved into large scale processes...this is extremely useful information that would be difficult to pull from the primary literature. Similar information is found in "The Art of Drug Synthesis"(Johnson and Li), though not necessarily with the specific emphasis on multiple routes to the same target.

In short, this useful compendium is perfect for anyone close to the lab...I will be purchasing copies for my academic labs and I expect that it will also prove useful for organic chemists in pharmaceutical and related industries.

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