The book delves into the comparative analysis of demonstratives in German and Chinese, examining their discourse, textual, locative, and temporal applications. It challenges the traditional understanding that proximal demonstratives indicate closeness to the speaker, while non-proximal ones signify distance. By exploring these nuances, the author highlights the complexities of referential use in both languages, offering new insights into their grammatical and contextual functions.
Using Collaborative Learning to Enhance Learning
This book presents a study on corpus-driven distribution as the main method of prediction, concentrating on individual semantic features to predict the senses of non-defined words by using corpora and tools, such as the Chinese Gigaword Corpus, HowNet, Chinese Wordnet, and XianDai HanYu CiDian (Xian Han). With the help of these corpora, the study determines the collocation clusters of four target words: chi1 “eat,” wan2 “play,” huan4 “change” and shao1 “burn” through character and concept similarities. The results of this sense prediction study demonstrate that it was able to use off-line tasks to test some participants’ intuition, which supports the theory that different clusters can represent different senses when pursuing a corpus-based, computational approach.
Legal Perspectives on Venture Capital and Private Equity
This book offers a comprehensive legal analysis of limited partnerships within China's venture capital and private equity sectors. It serves as an essential resource for practitioners seeking insights into Chinese partnership law and the operational dynamics of the partnership regime. Key features of Chinese partnership law and limited partnerships are discussed, with a focus on challenging and evolving areas through relevant legislation and recent case studies. The text also incorporates perspectives from international jurisdictions, including the UK and the US. It addresses new developments such as amendments to the PRC Partnership Enterprise Law 2007 and recent regulations concerning foreign partnerships and private equity funds. Critical aspects of Chinese limited partnerships, including management and control, partner duties and liabilities, remedies for limited partners, dissolution, liquidation, and taxation, are thoroughly explored. Through detailed comparative and empirical research, the book identifies existing legal challenges and proposes solutions for practitioners and lawmakers. The empirical issues highlighted may inform future discussions and legislative efforts regarding the limited partnership model and the broader conversation around new business structures.