Talk:Chinese particles

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Are you sure that yǔcí is 语辭 and not 语词？Contributions/68.11.47.6 (talk) 19:39, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Preceding Syntactic Element

Are both readings of "preceding syntactic element" in use here? i.e. in "A, B, C" "B" is "preceding letter" "C" and "A" is the "preceding letter" of "B". The table seems inconsistent. I was here to look up 的 and the use of the first column in this entry conflicts with other uses. Icedwater (talk) 06:27, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't understand what you're asking, User:Icedwater. Can you be more specific? rʨanaɢ (talk) 06:44, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Sure. Here is what I was looking at in particular. In the first two lines, 的 precedes the noun, 车 and 女孩. I therefore read the heading as "if the element in question (的) is found preceding syntactic element below, it has the following effect". (As an aside, in the third line, I do not identify a phrase which 的 precedes.)

In the other entries, such as 个, it is clear that the preceding syntactic element refers to the elements preceding 个, i.e. "if this is the preceding syntactic element of the element in question (个)". How do I reconcile this difference? Icedwater (talk) 04:32, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

I think you're misunderstanding. As far as I can tell, "preceding syntactic element" refers to what precedes the particle, not what the particle precedes. The examples are not clear and the descriptions are poorly worded (which I will fix now), but it's still the case that they're referring to what precedes the 的. rʨanaɢ (talk) 13:56, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

The examples are much clearer now. Thanks! Icedwater (talk) 15:07, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Japanese particle?

Why are the source codes full of "Japanese particle"? And why do this article use a sophisticated template? --Mteechan (talk) 19:26, 24 May 2018 (UTC)