Current issues in Chinese linguistics

Chinese is the most commonly spoken language in the world and one of the very few contemporary languages whose history is documented in an unbroken tradition extending back to the second millennium. Compared with Western languages, Chinese has a typology with distinguished features in sound system, syntax, and discourse that have a strong impact on Chinese linguistics studies and language learning. Drawing on theoretical models from formal and functional linguistics, discourse analysis, compu...

Conference proceedings.

Chinese language and linguistics in the new era / Yun Xiao -- Looking into clauses / Yen-Hui Audrey Li -- On the theory of right node raising : some perspectives from Mandarin Chinese / Hsu-Te Johnny Cheng -- Distributivity : a parametric view / Grant Xiaoguang Li -- An OT analysis of informational focus in Mandarin Chineses / Kening Li -- Possessor raising and the BA construction / Pei-Jung Kuo -- Core vocabulary in spoken Mandarin and the integration of corpus-based findings into language pedagogy / Hongyin Tao -- Serial verb construction in Chinese : the interface of syntax, semantics and lexical evolution / Liang Tao -- Grammatical roles of head nouns of Chinese relative clauses / Tao Ming -- From subjectivity to intersubjectivity : epistemic marker Wo Juede in Chinese / Ni Eng Lim -- Interface of aspect and modality in the interpretation of Chinese modal auxiliary verb yinggai / Fei Ren -- Preferred argument structure in Chinese conversations, narratives, and written texts / Wan-Hua Lin -- Chinese discourse markers in oral speech of mainland Mandarin speakers / Binmei Liu -- Romanization patterns in Chinese as evidenced by a personal name corpus / Tom McClive -- Loanword adap…