Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics is a state-of-the-art book series showcasing high quality research on the linguistics of the Chinese language. Titles in the series range from seminal classics to cutting edge studies in the field, and comprise both research monographs and edited volumes.
Contributions are welcomed from all areas of linguistic study applied to the Chinese language, including but not limited to phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, stylistics, sociolinguistics, language and communication, historical linguistics, dialectology, language acquisition, language pedagogy, corpus linguistics, bilingualism and Chinese for specific purposes, etc.
Published in English, titles in the series will be of great interest to postgraduate students and scholars in the fields of Chinese language and linguistics.
If you have a book proposal or idea in mind that might be suitable for the series, please contact the series editor Hongming Zhang of Macau University of Science and Technology ([email protected]). For more information on submitting a proposal to Routledge, please visit http://www.routledge.com/info/authors/#submitproposal.
Increments in Mandarin Chinese: Emergent Units in Action
1st Edition
By Ni-Eng Lim
June 19, 2024
Looking at everyday Mandarin Chinese conversations, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the practices used in producing Chinese increments. Increments have been identified as a key nexus that evinces how human interactional practices are fundamental to the structuration of grammar. ...
The Acquisition of Anaphora in Child Mandarin: Reflexive Binding and Argument Dropping
1st Edition
By Ruya Li
May 10, 2024
The Acquisition of Anaphora in Child Mandarin explores how Mandarin-speaking children’s interpretation of the reflexive ziji and their use of null arguments can be understood under the notions of locality and prominence. This book investigates the interpretation of ziji and the use of null subjects...
Locality in Grammar: From Narrow Syntax to Interfaces
1st Edition
By Xiaoshi Hu
May 08, 2024
Locality in Grammar: From Narrow Syntax to Interfaces investigates the operation of locality conditions in syntax and semantics from a cross-linguistic perspective. It is claimed that there are two different types of locality conditions. One is the Generalized Minimality Condition (GMC), and the ...
Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-related Structures
1st Edition
By Ying Liu
December 30, 2022
Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-related Structures investigates the semantics of the cleft and cleft-related structures in Mandarin, which, over several decades, have presented analytical challenges for semantic theory. The goal of this book, in broad terms, is ...
The Right Periphery in L2 Chinese: How Sentence-Final Particles are Represented in English-Chinese Interlanguages
1st Edition
By Shanshan Yan
December 29, 2022
The Right Periphery in L2 Chinese is among the first books to try to incorporate both advanced linguistic and acquisition perspectives to show how eight sentence-final particles are represented in English-speaking learners’ L2 Chinese. This book will inform researchers of the general construction ...
Nantong Chinese
1st Edition
By Benjamin Ao
August 01, 2022
Nantong Chinese is an in-depth account of an interesting and endangered Sinitic language spoken in Nantong, China, in an area in the Northern Yangtze River Delta about 800 square kilometers in size and 105 kilometers northwest of the city of Shanghai. The Chinese language consists of several ...
Cognition-Based Studies on Chinese Grammar
1st Edition
By Yulin Yuan
April 28, 2020
Introducing the English translations of 8 selected research articles originally written in Chinese by Professor Yuan Yulin, Cognition-based Studies on Chinese Grammar is an essential reading for researchers in Chinese syntax. Yuan Yulin is one of the very first Chinese scholars who introduced ...
Modern Chinese Grammar - a Clause-Pivot Approach
1st Edition
By Fuyi Xing
April 28, 2020
Modern Chinese Grammar provides a comprehensive coverage of Chinese grammar through the clause-pivot theory and the double triangle approach, first proposed by Fuyi Xing in 1996. Translated into English for the first time, the book is widely regarded by linguists as a seminal text, and ...