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.
Lexical Ontological Semantics
1st Edition
By Guoxiang Wu, Yulin Yuan
September 30, 2020
Lexical Ontological Semantics introduces ontological methods into lexical semantic studies with the aim of giving impetus to various fields of endeavours which envision and model the semantic network of a language. Lexical ontological semantics (LOS) provides a cognition-based ...
A Study of Sino-Korean Phonology: Its Origin, Adaptation and Layers
1st Edition
By Youyong Qian
August 14, 2020
The term Sino-Korean may refer to either the phonological system or vocabulary in Korean that is of Chinese origin. Along with the borrowing of Chinese characters, the Chinese readings of characters must also have been transmitted into Korean. A Study of Sino-Korean Phonology aims to contribute to ...
Intensification and Modal Necessity in Mandarin Chinese
1st Edition
By Jiun-Shiung Wu
August 14, 2020
This book addresses intensification and modal necessity in Mandarin Chinese.Intensification is used in this book to describe the speaker’s emphasis on a proposition, because, by emphasizing on a proposition, the speaker intensifies the degree of his/her confidence and affirmativeness toward the ...
Mandarin Loanwords
1st Edition
By Tae Eun Kim
August 14, 2020
English-based Mandarin loanwords are commonly used in Chinese people’s daily lives. Mandarin Loanwords demonstrates how English phonemes map into Mandarin phonemes through Mandarin loanwords adaptation. The consonantal adaptations are the most important in the analyses, and vowel adaptation and ...
Partition and Quantity: Numeral Classifiers, Measurement, and Partitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese
1st Edition
By Jing Jin
August 14, 2020
Partition and Quantity: Numeral Classifiers, Measurement, and Partitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese presents an in-depth investigation into the semantic and syntactic properties of Chinese classifiers and conducts a comprehensive examination on the use of different quantity constructions in ...
The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity
1st Edition
By Song Jiang
August 14, 2020
The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity focuses on the semantic structure of Chinese classifiers under the cognitive linguistics framework, and the implications thereof on linguistic relativity and language acquisition. It examines the semantic correlation between a given ...
Mandarin Chinese Words and Parts of Speech: A Corpus-based Study
1st Edition
By Chu-Ren Huang, Shu-Kai Hsieh, Keh-Jiann Chen
June 30, 2020
This monograph is a translation of two seminal works on corpus-based studies of Mandarin Chinese words and parts of speech. The original books were published as two pioneering technical reports by Chinese Knowledge and Information Processing group (CKIP) at Academia Sinica in 1993 and 1996, ...
Syntax-Phonology Interface: Argumentation from Tone Sandhi in Chinese Dialects
1st Edition
By Hongming Zhang
June 30, 2020
This book centers on theoretical issues of phonology-syntax interface based on tone sandhi in Chinese dialects. It uses patterns in tone sandhi to study how speech should be divided into domains of various sizes or levels. Tone sandhi refers to tonal changes that occur to a sequence of adjacent ...
The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics
1st Edition
By Yicheng Wu
June 30, 2020
The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics provides an in-depth exploration of a variety of interface phenomena in Chinese, a non-inflectional language, where to a large extent word order constrains its interpretation and defines its grammatical functions. Under the Dynamic ...
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 ...
Dimensions of Variation in Written Chinese
1st Edition
By Zheng-Sheng Zhang
December 12, 2019
Dimensions of Variation in Written Chinese uses a corpus-based, multi-dimensional model to account for variation in written Chinese. Using statistical method and two-dimensional visual representation, it provides a concrete and objective view of the internal variation in written Chinese. This book ...