The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
Yen-Hwei Lin , Michigan State University
I-Hsuan Chen , University of California, Berkeley
Yu-Yin Hsu , The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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The linguistic study of Chinese, with its rich morphological, syntactic and prosodic/tonal structures, its complex writing system, and its diverse socio-historical background, is already a long-established and vast research area. With contributions from internationally renowned experts in the field, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the central issues in Chinese linguistics. Chapters are divided into four thematic areas: writing systems and the neuro-cognitive processing of Chinese, morpho-lexical structures, phonetic and phonological characteristics, and issues in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. By following a context-driven approach, it shows how theoretical issues in Chinese linguistics can be resolved with empirical evidence and argumentation, and provides a range of different perspectives. Its dialectical design sets a state-of-the-art benchmark for research in a wide range of interdisciplinary and cross-lingual studies involving the Chinese language. It is an essential resource for students and researchers wishing to explore the fascinating field of Chinese linguistics.
- Introduces the key linguistics issues in the study of Chinese linguistics
- Focuses on the empirical and theory-neutral argumentation for significant positions on the linguistic issues of Chinese
- Provides researchers and advanced research students in linguistics and language sciences with discussion and solutions to the unsolved fundamental issues
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March 2025Paperback
9781108412872
729 pages
244 × 170 × 37 mm
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Table of Contents
- 1. Phonological awareness, orthography and learning to reading Chinese Jun-Ren Lee, Chu-Ren Huang
- 2. Semantic awareness in reading Chinese Chia-Ying Lee
- 3. Wordhood and disyllabicity in Chinese James Myers
- 4. Characters as basic lexical units and mono-syllabicity in Chinese Chu-Ren Huang, Hongjun Wang, I-Hsuan Chen
- 5. Parts-of-speech in Chinese and how to identify them Weidong Zhan, Xiaojing Bai
- 6. Gaps in parts-of-speech in Chinese and why? Marie-Claude Paris
- 7. Derivational and inflectional affixes in Chinese and their morphosyntactic properties Dingxu Shi, Chu-Ren Huang
- 8. The extreme poverty of affixation in Chinese: Rarely derivational and hardly affixational Shu-Kai Hsieh, Jia-Fei Hong Hong, Chu-Ren Huang
- 9. On an integral theory of word-formation in Chinese and beyond Yafei Li
- 10. Compounding is semantics-driven in Chinese Zuoyan Song, Jiajuan Xiong, Qingqing Zhao, Chu-Ren Huang
- 11. The morphophonology of Chinese affixation Yen-Hwei Lin
- 12. Mandarin Chinese syllable structure and phonological similarity: Perception and production studies Karl Neergaard, Chu-Ren Huang
- 13. Tonal processes defined as articulatory-based contextual tonal variation Yi Xu, Albert Lee
- 14. Tonal processes defined as tone sandhi Jie Zhang
- 15. Tonal processes conditioned by morphosyntax Lian-Hee Wee, 16. Tone and intonation Yiya Chen
- 17. Evidence for stress and metrical structure in Chinese San Duanmu
- 18. Perceptual normalization of lexical tones: Behavioral and neural evidence Caicai Zhang, William Shi Yuan Wang
- 19. SVO as the canonical word order in modern Chinese Feng-his Liu
- 20. SVO as the canonical word order in modern Chinese Sicong Dong, Jie Xu
- 21. Semantic and pragmatic conditions on word order variation in Chinese Jeeyoung Peck
- 22. The case for case in Chinese Yen-hui Audrey Li
- 23. The case without case in Chinese: Issues and alternative approaches Yu-Yin Hsu
- 24. The syntax of classifiers in Mandarin Chinese Li Jiang, Peter Jenks, Jing Jin
- 25. The Chinese classifier system as a lexical-semantic system I-Hsuan Chen, Kathleen Ahrens, Chu-Ren Huang
- 26. Syntax of sentence-final particles in Chinese Siu-Pong Cheng, Sze-Wing Tang
- 27. Sentence final particles: Sociolinguistic and discourse perspectives Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
- 28. Topicalization defined by syntax Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
- 29. An interactive perspective on topic constructions in Mandarin: Some new findings based on natural conversation Hongyin Tao
- 30. Grammatical acceptability in Mandarin Chinese Yao Yao, Zhi-guo Xie, Chien-Jer Charles Lin, Chu-Ren Huang.
