Table of Contents

About the Editors
List of Contributors

PART 1. HISTORY

Introduction
William S-Y. Wang and Chaofen Sun

1. The Peoples and Languages of China: Evolutionary Background
William S-Y. Wang

2. The Classification of Chinese: Sinitic (The Chinese Language Family)
Zev Handel

3. Sino-Tibetan Syntax
Randy J. LaPolla

4. Proto-Sino-Tibetan Morphology and Its Modern Chinese Correlates
Tsu-Lin Mei

5. Old Chinese Phonology
Zev Handel

6. Middle Chinese Phonology and Qieyun
Wuyun Pan and Hongming Zhang

7. Early Mandarin Seen from Ancient Altaic Scripts: The Rise of a New Phonological Standard
Zhongwei Shen

PART 2. LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS

8. Austric Languages
Baoya Chen and Zihe Li

9. The Austronesian Languages of Taiwan
Paul Jen-kuei Li

10. Tibeto-Burman
George van Driem

11. Chinese Dialects
Dah-an Ho

12. Min Languages
Chinfa Lien

13. The Yue Language
Anne O. Yue

14. Wu Dialect
Shangfang Zhengzhang and Wei Zheng

PART 3. LANGUAGE CONTACT

15. Language Contact and Its Influence on the Development of Chinese Syntax
Guangshun Cao and Hsiao-jung Yu

16. Language Contact Between Chinese and Japanese: Peculiarity of Japanese in the Manner of Accepting Chinese
Mitsuaki Endo

17. 2,200 Years of Language Contact Between Korean and Chinese
Ik-sang Eom

18. The Influence of Buddhist Sanskrit on Chinese
Xiangdong Shi

19. Language Contact Between Tibeto-Burman Languages and Chinese
Feng Wang

PART 4. MORPHOLOGY

20. Morphology: Morphemes in Chinese
Jerome L. Packard

21. Tense and Aspect in Mandarin Chinese
Meichun Liu

22. Chinese Lexical Semantics: From Radicals to Event Structure
Chu-Ren Huang and Shu-Kai Hsieh

23. Resultative Verb Compounds in Mandarin
Shiao Wei Tham

24. The Encoding of Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese
Jingxia Lin

25. Profiling the Mandarin Spoken Vocabulary Based on Corpora
Hongyin Tao

26. Modeling Word Concepts without Convention: Linguistic and Computational Issues in Chinese Word Identification
Chu-Ren Huang and Nianwen Xue

27. The Uses of De ? as a Noun Phrase Marker
Chaofen Sun

PART 5. SYNTAX

28. Some Typological Characteristics of Mandarin Chinese Syntax
Fuxiang Wu and Yancheng He

29. Topic Prominence
Liejiong Xu

30. Referentiality and Definiteness in Chinese
Ping Chen

31. Adverbs
Yung-O Biq

32. The Grammaticalization of the Ba Construction: Cause and Effect in a Case of Specialization Chaofen Sun

PART 6. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

33. Phonetic Study on Phonations in China
Jiangping Kong

34. Vowel Distribution in Isolated and Continuous Speech: The Case of Cantonese and Mandarin
Feng Shi, Gang Peng, and Yi Liu

35. Modern Chinese Phonology
Lian-Hee Wee and Mingxing Li

36. Intonation in Chinese
Yi Xu

37. Tone
Xiaonong Zhu and Caiyu Wang

38. Tone Perception
Gang Peng and Caicai Zhang

PART 7. SOCIOCULTURAL ASPECTS

39. Language Reform in Modern China
Ping Chen

40. Language Policy of China's Minority Languages
Hongkai Sun

41. Chinese Writing and Literacy
Feng Wang and Yaching Tsai

42. Design and Deliver: Teaching Students to Communicate
T. Richard Chi

43. Chinese as a Heritage Language
Agnes Weiyun He

44. Lingua Francas in Greater China
David C.S. Li

45. Some Basic and Salient Linguistic Features Across Chinese Speech Communities from a Corpus Linguistics Perspective
Benjamin K. Tsou and Oi Yee Kwong

46. Codeswitching
Li, Wei

47. Gender Differences in Chinese Speech Communities
Daming Xu

PART 8. NEUROPSYCHOLOGI CAL ASPECTS

48. Early Vocabulary Learning in Chinese-Speaking Children
Twila Tardif

49. Children's Early Production of Physical Action Verbs in Chinese
Helena Hong Gao

50. Semantic Processing: Access, Ambiguity, and Metaphor
Kathleen Ahrens

51. Neurocomputational Approaches to Chinese
Ping Li

52. Developmental Dyslexia in Chinese
Catherine McBride, Xiuhong Tong, and Jianhong Mo

53. Developmental Speech and Language Disorders in Children
Hua Zhu

54. Hong Kong Sign Language
Gladys Tang

55. Taiwan Sign Language: History, Structure, and Adaptation
James H.-Y. Tai and Jane S. Tsay

Index

About the Author

William Wang founded the Journal of Chinese Linguistics at Berkeley in 1973, and continues to be its editor. He was the Inaugural President of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, founded in 1992. His writings have appeared in many specialized journals as well as in general publications, including Nature, PNAS, American Scientist, and Scientific American. He has held various appointments in China, India, Italy, Japan, and Sweden. He is the Chair
Professor of Language and Cognitive Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Professor of Linguistics Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley.

Chaofen Sun is Professor at Stanford University and was Yangtze Scholar at Beijing Language and Culture University. His areas of scholarship are in morphosyntactic changes in the history of Chinese, sociolinguistics and Chinese syntax. He has done extensive research on Chinese historical linguistics, functional linguistics and Chinese language education.

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