The Oxford handbook of Chinese linguistics / edited by William S.-Y. Wang and Chaofen Sun.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Description
1 online resource (793 p.)

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Oxford handbooks in linguistics. [More in this series]
Summary note
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.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 5, 2015).
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English
Contents
  • 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.
Other title(s)
  • Handbook of Chinese linguistics
  • Chinese linguistics
ISBN
  • 9780190266844
  • 0190266848
  • 9780199983322
  • 0199983321
  • 9780199856343
  • 0199856346
OCLC
901237159
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