New PDF release: New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics

By C.-T. James Huang, Y.-H. Audrey Li (auth.), C.-T. James Huang, Yen-hui Audrey Li (eds.)

ISBN-10: 0792338685

ISBN-13: 9780792338680

ISBN-10: 9400916086

ISBN-13: 9789400916081

The prior decade and a part has witnessed loads of renewed curiosity within the research of chinese language linguistics, not just within the conventional components of philological experiences and in theoretically orientated components of syn­ persistent grammar and language switch but in addition within the cultivation of recent frontiers in similar components of the cognitive sciences. there's a major elevate within the variety of scholars learning one region or one other of the linguistic constitution of chinese language in a variety of linguistic courses within the usa, Europe, Australia and in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and different components of Asia. numerous new educational departments dedicated to the examine of linguistics were demonstrated in Taiwan and Hong Kong long ago few years. The expanding study and learn actions have additionally led to a couple of nationwide and overseas meetings, together with the North American convention on chinese language Linguistics (NACCL), which has been held every year within the usa; the overseas Symposium on chinese language Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL), which has had its fourth assembly because it used to be introduced via Academia Sinica in Taiwan in 1990; the foreign organization of chinese language Linguistics (lACL), created in Singapore in 1992 and now included in Irvine, California, which has held its annual conferences at significant associations in Asia, Europe, and the US.

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Strictly speaking, within the current framework of feature geometry, the dominance or coplanar geometry of (20a) is 'anomalous' in two respects: first, as Yip (personal communication) has pointed out, the tone segments [h,l] representing the feature [slack] would not hang down from an articulatory node, as one would expect; second, T (= H, L) and t (= h, I) in the configuration of (20a) would constitute the only example of hierarchically ordered phonological features, as Bao (1990:41) observed.

It is 'shredded' into different layers of VPs with the V being raised from the lowest V position to the higher V, as in (10): (10) V' NPl v NP2 v XP In contrast to V-raising, there are also suggestions of affix-lowering, as in Cheng (1990).

Danyang is another. While the extension of the disyllabic melodies to polysyllabic strings is rulegoverned, the six disyllabic 'word melodies' listed as A through F in (13) are not predictable by reference to the source tones in any conceivable combinatorial possibilities that make phonological sense. Though widely attested in many Chinese dialects, such apparently random patterns 0 f tonal substitution have so far eluded our understanding. For an explanation of the puzzling patterns of tonal substitution we probably have to look elsewhere, especially in the direction of the historical evolution of tone systems.

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