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.
Locality in Grammar: From Narrow Syntax to Interfaces
1st Edition
By Xiaoshi Hu
September 29, 2025
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 ...
The Acquisition of Anaphora in Child Mandarin: Reflexive Binding and Argument Dropping
1st Edition
By Ruya Li
September 29, 2025
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...
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 ...
Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese: Cartography and Minimalism
1st Edition
By Victor Pan
August 29, 2022
Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese offers a comprehensive survey on the fine structure of the sentence peripheral domain in Mandarin Chinese from a cartographic perspective. Different functional projections hosting sentence-final particles, implicit operators and other informational ...
Diachronic Perspectives and Synchronic Variation in Southern Min
1st Edition
Edited
By Chinfa Lien, Alain Peyraube
August 29, 2022
Diachronic Perspectives and Synchronic Variation in Southern Min aims to address a range of grammatical phenomena in Southern Min. The Sinitic languages show divergence not only in phonology but also in grammar. Together with Hakka, Yue and part of Wu, Min forms the two major Southern groups of Far...
Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese: A Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Peppina Po-lun Lee
August 29, 2022
One prominent function of natural language is to convey information. One peculiarity is that it does not do so randomly, but in a structured way, with information structuring formally recognized to be a component of grammar. Among all information structuring notions, focus is one primitive needed ...
Prominence and Locality in Grammar: The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Questions and Reflexives
1st Edition
By Jianhua Hu
August 29, 2022
This book challenges the current consensus on the analysis of wh-questions and reflexives from the perspective of the syntax-semantics interface. An integrated approach incorporating analyses of the interaction between different levels of linguistic knowledge is proposed. It argues that the ...
Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect: Domains and Rule Application
1st Edition
By Shuxiang You
August 29, 2022
Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect: Domains and Rule Application is the first attempt to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the Fuzhou phonological system from the perspective of prosodic phonology.It addresses the following issues: What prosodic constituents exist in the Fuzhou dialect and ...
Prosodic Studies: Challenges and Prospects
1st Edition
Edited
By Hongming Zhang, Youyong Qian
August 29, 2022
Prosody is one of the core components of language and speech, indicating information about syntax, turn-taking in conversation, types of utterances, such as questions or statements, as well as speakers' attitudes and feelings. This edited volume takes studies in prosody on Asian languages as well ...
Semantics of Chinese Questions: An Interface Approach
1st Edition
By Hongyuan Dong
August 29, 2022
Semantics of Chinese Questions is the first major study of Chinese questions, especially wh-questions, within the framework of Alternative Semantics. It takes an interface approach to study the syntax, semantics, and phonology of questions and proposes a phonological scope-marking strategy in ...
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 ...