Book Title

The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

Editors

Chu-Ren HUANG (Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies), Yen-Hwei LIN, I-Hsuan CHEN and Yu-Yin HSU (Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies)

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year of Publication

2022

ISBN

978-1108420075

Introduction

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 neurocognitive 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.

Content

Part One Writing System/Neuro-cognitive Processing of Chinese

1. Phonological Awareness, Orthography, and Learning to
Read Chinese Jun-Ren Lee and Chu-Ren Huang                                              3

2. Semantic Awareness in Reading Chinese Chia-Ying Lee                          23

Part Two Morpho-lexical Issues in Chinese

3. Wordhood and Disyllabicity in Chinese James Myers                              47

4. Characters as Basic Lexical Units and Monosyllabicity
in Chinese Chu-Ren Huang, Hongjun Wang,
and I-Hsuan Chen                                                                                                 74

5. Parts of Speech in Chinese and How to
Identify Them Weidong Zhan and Xiaojing Bai                                               97

6. Gaps in Parts of Speech in Chinese and Why
Marie-Claude Paris                                                                                             114

7. Derivational and Inflectional Affixes in Chinese and Their
Morphosyntactic Properties Dingxu Shi and Chu-Ren Huang                   135

8. The Extreme Poverty of Affixation in Chinese: Rarely
Derivational and Hardly Affixational Shu-Kai Hsieh, Jia-Fei
Hong, and Chu-Ren Huang                                                                               158

9. On an Integral Theory of Word Formation in Chinese
and Beyond Yafei Li                                                                                           174

10. Compounding Is Semantics-driven in Chinese Zuoyan Song,
Jiajuan Xiong, Qingqing Zhao, and Chu-Ren Huang                                    198

Part Three Phonetic-phonological Issues in Chinese

11. The Morphophonology of Chinese Affixation Yen-Hwei Lin                223
12. Mandarin Chinese Syllable Structure and Phonological
Similarity: Perception and Production Studies Karl David
Neergaard and Chu-Ren Huang                                                                      245
13. Tonal Processes Defined as Articulatory-based Contextual
Tonal Variation Yi Xu and Albert Lee                                                             275
14. Tonal Processes Defined as Tone Sandhi Jie Zhang                          291
15. Tonal Processes Conditioned by Morphosyntax Lian-Hee Wee        313
16 Tone and Intonation Yiya Chen                                                                 336
17. Evidence for Stress and Metrical Structure in Chinese San
Duanmu                                                                                                              361
18. Perceptual Normalization of Lexical Tones: Behavioral and
Neural Evidence Caicai Zhang and William Shi Yuan Wang                     383

Part Four Syntax–semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse Issues

19. SVO as the Canonical Word Order in
Modern Chinese Feng-hsi Liu                                                                         407
20. SOV as the Canonical Word Order in
Modern Chinese Sicong Dong and Jie Xu                                                    428
21. Semantic and Pragmatic Conditions on Word Order Variation
in Chinese Jeeyoung Peck                                                                             444
22. The Case for Case in Chinese Yen-hui Audrey Li                                 467
23. The Case without Case in Chinese: Issues and
Alternative Approaches Yu-Yin Hsu                                                             486
24. The Syntax of Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese Li Julie Jiang,
Peter Jenks, and Jing Jin                                                                               515
25. The Chinese Classifier System as a Lexical-semantic
System I-Hsuan Chen, Kathleen Ahrens, and Chu-Ren Huang                550
26. Syntax of Sentence-final Particles in Chinese Siu-Pong Cheng
and Sze-Wing Tang                                                                                         578
27. Sentence-final Particles: Sociolinguistic and
Discourse Perspectives Zhuo Jing-Schmidt                                              597
28. Topicalization Defined by Syntax Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai                      616
29. An Interactive Perspective on Topic Constructions in
Mandarin: Some New Findings Based on Natural
Conversation Hongyin Tao                                                                            635
30. Grammatical Acceptability in Mandarin Chinese Yao Yao,
Zhi-Guo Xie, Chien-Jer Charles Lin, and Chu-Ren Huang                         669
Index                                                                                                                  707

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