Increased empiricism : recent advances in Chinese linguistics / Edited by Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, University of Oregon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo, editor.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Studies in Chinese language and discourse ; v. 2.

Studies in Chinese language and discourse ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language.

Chinese language--Syntax.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

vii, 317 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]

Contents:

1 Contributors p. vii

2 Acknowledgements p. ix

3 Introduction p. 1 / Zhuo Jing-Schmidt

4 Subjecthood in Chinese p. 23 / Walter Bisang; Wang Luming; Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky

5 Characteristic syntactic patterns of Mandarin Chinese p. 49 / Fuxiang Wu

6 The\origins of Sinitic p. 73 / Scott DeLancey

7 Classifier choices in discourse across the seven main Chinese dialects p. 101 / Mary S. Erbaugh

8 The\painted word p. 127 / Agnes Weiyun He

9 Tone realization in younger versus older speakers of Nanjing dialect p. 147 / Si Chen; Caroline R. Wiltshire

10 Evaluating the emergence of [#651;] in modern spoken Mandarin p. 171 / Seth Wiener; Ya-ting Shih

11 The\semantic constraints on the verb + zhe nouns in Mandarin Chinese p. 189 / I-Hsuan Chen

12 The\semantic type system of event nouns p. 205 / Shan Wang; Chu-Ren Huang

13 Semantic reanalysis in grammaticalization in Chinese p. 223 / Janet Zhiqun Xing

14 How linear distance and structural distance affect the processing of gap-filler dependencies in head-final relative clauses p. 247 / Chun-Chieh Hsu; Jenn-Yeu Chen

15 Variation in Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi p. 271 / Chiung-Yao Wang; Yen-Hwei Lin

16 The\role of instruction in developing pragmatic competence in L2 Chinese p. 293 / Shuai Li

17 Author index p. 309

18 Subject index p. 311.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9027201811

9789027201812

OCLC:

850909395

Publisher Number:

99957246529