The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
1. Edition April 2014
688 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics presents critical overviews of a wide range of major topics in Chinese linguistics, and is the first book to introduce Chinese linguistics from the perspective of modern theoretical and formal linguistics. Topics covered include, syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, language acquisition, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and more, with each chapter outlining and assessing the major achievements and controversies of research undertaken in that subject.
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The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics presents critical overviews of a wide range of major topics in Chinese linguistics, and is the first book to introduce Chinese linguistics from the perspective of modern theoretical and formal linguistics.
* Offers readers a balanced and accessible introduction to some of the most important results of research into Chinese linguistics carried out by theoretical linguists during the last thirty years
* Topics covered include, among others, syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, language acquisition, historical linguistics, and psycholinguistics, with each chapter outlining and assessing the major achievements and controversies of research undertaken in that subject
* Contributors present their own research in their field of expertise, along with competitor theories and analyses
* Edited by a team of leading figures in the field, all with vast research experience in this area
List of Tables ix
Notes on Contributors x
Foreword xiv
Part I Syntax, Semantics, and Morphology 1
1 Morphology 3
Wei-Wen Roger Liao
2 Classifiers 26
Francesca del Gobbo
3 Adverbial Adjuncts in Mandarin Chinese 49
Thomas Ernst
4 Light Verbs 73
T.-H. Jonah Lin
5 Topic and Focus 100
Shu-Ing Shyu
6 Aspect 126
Hooi Ling Soh
7 Sentence-Final Particles 156
Andrew Simpson
8 Wh-Expressions in Mandarin Chinese 180
Jo-Wang Lin
9 Quantification and Scope 208
Yen-Hui Audrey Li
10 The Syntactic Structure of Noun Phrases 248
Lisa L.-S. Cheng and Rint Sybesma
11 Ellipsis 275
Yen-Hui Audrey Li and Ting-Chi Wei
12 Causal VVs in Mandarin 311
Alexander Williams
13 Comparatives 342
Chen-Sheng Luther Liu
Part II Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody 367
14 Chinese Phonetics 369
Wai-Sum Lee and Eric Zee
15 Segmental Phonology 400
Yen-Hwei Lin
16 Syllable Structure and Stress 422
San Duanmu
17 Tones, Tonal Phonology, and Tone Sandhi 443
Jie Zhang
18 Prosody and Syntax 465
Andrew Simpson
Part III Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics 493
19 Bilingual and Multilingual Acquisition of Chinese 495
Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip
20 Neurocognitive Approaches to the Processing of Chinese 511
Ping Li, Hua Shu, and Youyi Liu
Part IV Historical Linguistics 535
21 Historical Syntax of Chinese 537
Shengli Feng
22 Historical Phonology of Chinese 576
Zev Handel
Part V Morpho-Syntax of Other Non-Mandarin Varieties of Chinese 599
23 Aspects of Cantonese Grammar 601
Sze-Wing Tang and Siu-Pong Cheng
24 Taiwanese Hokkien/Southern Min 629
Miao-Ling Hsieh
Index 657
Y.-H. Audrey Li is Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. She has authored and edited several books, including Essays on the Representational and Derivational Nature of Grammar (with Joseph Aoun, 2003), Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation (edited with Andrew Simpson, 2003), and The Syntax of Chinese (with James Huang and Yafei Li, 2009). She has also published in a number of linguistic journals including the Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Language and Linguistic Inquiry.
Andrew Simpson is Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Wh-Movement and the Theory of Feature Checking (2000), and editor of Language and National Identity in Asia (2007), and Language and National Identity in Africa (2008). He has published articles in a number of Linguistic journals, including Linguistic Inquiry, Language, Lingua, and The Journal of East Asian Linguistics. He is also joint general editor of The Journal of East Asian Linguistics.
