The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics (Oxford Handbooks)

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation and even developing new syntactic structures. It also accompanies traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology with empirical evidence from psychology and neurocognitive sciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Chinese languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan. Cover Series The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics Copyright Contents About the Editors List of Contributors Part 1 History Introduction 1 The Peoples and Languages of China: Evolutionary Background 2 The Classification of Chinese: Sinitic (The Chinese Language Family) 3 Sino-Tibetan Syntax 4 Proto-Sino-Tibetan Morphology and Its Modern Chinese Correlates 5 Old Chinese Phonology 6 Middle Chinese Phonology and Qieyun 7 Early Mandarin Seen from Ancient Altaic Scripts: The Rise of a New Phonological Standard Part 2 Languages and Dialects 8 Austric Languages 9 The Austronesian Languages of Taiwan 10 Tibeto-Burman 11 Chinese Dialects 12 Min Languages 13 The Yue Language 14 Wu Dialect Part 3 Language Contact 15 Language Contact and Its Influence on the Development of Chinese Syntax 16 Language Contact Between Chinese and Japanese: Peculiarity of Japanese in the Manner of Accepting Chinese 17 2,200 Years of Language Contact Between Korean and Chinese 18 The Influence of Buddhist Sanskrit on Chinese 19 Language Contact Between Tibeto-Burman Languages and Chinese Part 4 Morphology 20 Morphology: Morphemes in Chinese 21 Tense and Aspect in Mandarin Chinese 22 Chinese Lexical Semantics: From Radicals to Event Structure 23 Resultative Verb Compounds in Mandarin 24 The Encoding of Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese 25 Profiling the Mandarin Spoken Vocabulary Based on Corpora 26 Modeling Word Concepts without Convention: Linguistic and Computational Issues in Chinese Word Identification 27 The Uses of De 的 as a Noun Phrase Marker Part 5 Syntax 28 Some Typological Characteristics of Mandarin Chinese Syntax 29 Topic Prominence 30 Referentiality and Definiteness in Chinese 31 Adverbs 32 The Grammaticalization of the Ba Construction: Cause and Effect in a Case of Specialization Part 6 Phonetics and Phonology 33 Phonetic Study on Phonations in China 34 Vowel Distribution in Isolated and Continuous Speech: The Case of Cantonese and Mandarin 35 Modern Chinese Phonology 36 Intonation in Chinese 37 Tone 38 Tone Perception Part 7 Sociocultural Aspects 39 Language Reform in Modern China 40 Language Policy of China’s Minority Languages 41 Chinese Writing and Literacy 42 Design and Deliver: Teaching Students to Communicate 43 Chinese as a Heritage Language 44 Lingua Francas in Greater China 45 Some Basic and Salient Linguistic Features Across Chinese Speech Communities from a Corpus Linguistics Perspective 46 Codeswitching 47 Gender Differences in Chinese Speech Communities Part 8 Neuropsychological Aspects 48 Early Vocabulary Learning in Chinese-Speaking Children 49 Children’s Early Production of Physical Action Verbs in Chinese 50 Semantic Processing: Access, Ambiguity, and Metaphor 51 Neurocomputational Approaches to Chinese 52 Developmental Dyslexia in Chinese 53 Developmental Speech and Language Disorders in Children 54 Hong Kong Sign Language 55 Taiwan Sign Language: History, Structure, and Adaptation Index The term "Chinese Linguistics" in the title of this Handbook refers to research done on the languages of China, both theoretical and applied. Chinese Linguistics has a long and honored tradition, starting with philosophical discussions on the nature of names by Confucius. Several empirical investigations in Chinese Linguistics followed the philosophical discussions on the nature of language in the Confucian tradition, each a landmark in its own way in ancient China. This Handbook contains eight sections: (1) history, (2) languages and dialects, (3) language contact, (4) morphology, (5) syntax, (6) phonetics and phonology, (7) socio-cultural aspects, and (8) neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation, and even developing new syntactic structures. Traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology are joined with empirical evidence from psycholinguistics and cognitive neurosciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this Handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Sinitic languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan. This is the first Handbook that deals with Chinese Linguistics from a broad multidisciplinary perspective. It is a combined effort from scholars working on this field in different parts of the world, including Greater China, Japan, Korea, North America, and Europe.-- Publisher info This handbook on Chinese linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology are joined with empirical evidence from psycholinguistics and cognitive neurosciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this Handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Sinitic languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan. All chapters are contributed to by leading scholars in their respective areas This is the first Handbook on Chinese linguistics which offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas.