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Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Publisher: Journal of Chinese Linguistics (JCL), The Chinese University of Hong Kong / Professor William S.-Y. Wang

English , 2025/06

Tags: Languages & Linguistics

229 x 152 mm , 232pp ISBN / ISSN : 0091-3723

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Preface of the inauguration issue of Journal Chinese Linguistics
By William S-Y. Wang (WSYW)
(Journal of Chinese Linguistics vol.1 number 1. p.ii (1973))

Chinese Linguistics derives from two distinct but related fields of knowledge. In one, the objective is to deepen our understanding of Chinese culture (in the broadest sense of the term) via its primary medium of expression - its language. Whether it is a piece of inscription to be deciphered, a philosophy to be analyzed, or a poem whose rimes are to be reconstructed, a solid knowledge of the language of that time is crucial. Such studies have a long tradition in Sinology; indeed, they were virtually the only ones which scholars interested in Chinese pursued, until recent times.

The other field of knowledge is aimed at discovering the general principles underlying human language as a whole. The Chinese Language is particularly important here not only because of the time depth of its literature and the wealth of its dialects, but even more because of the unique properties of its syntax and phonology. It constitutes a tremendously rich resource for Linguistics to tap from the study of sound change to investigations of sociolinguistic variation. These two fields, Linguistics and Sinology, flow together in their concern with the Chinese Language. The central questions on the language remain the same: its structure, its ontogeny, and its phylogeny, as well as the interactions between the Chinese Language on the one hand, and Chinese thought, literature, and social systems on the other. Also of considerable interest are the questions which arise when the Chinese language comes into contact with other languages, be it in the controlled context of a language class or on the streets of an emigrant community. All in all, there is much to be done.

Before today, papers on Chinese Linguistics had to seek foster homes in diverse journals of general linguistics and in publications of various hues of orientalia. This situation was at best a nuisance, and at worst a serious impediment to the communication and progress of our field. In this journal, let us hope, Chinese Linguistics will have found its own voice.

WSYW

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For more than 40 years, the Journal has proved itself to be a publication to encourage scholarly communication for advancing knowledge in the field of Chinese Linguistics (Languages in China) with vision, history, results, and innovative spirit. JCL’s effort to serve the international scholarly community in its field is attested by its inclusion by

  • Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstract
  • Linguistic Abstract online
  • Modern Language Association Directory of Periodicals
  • Modern Language International Bibliography
  • Bibliography of Asian Studies
  • Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index(A&HCI)
  • European Reference Index for Humanities
  • Scopus Database

We welcome scholars whose quality research involves issues in the theory of language and in exploration and description of Chinese languages to contribute research with original discoveries to JCL for inspiration of international scholarly communication.

Journal of Chinese Linguistics is also available online via Project Muse and JSTOR.

Editors

Shengli Feng, Beijing Language and Culture University, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Virginia Yip, Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Honorary Editor

William S-Y. Wang

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Chinese University of Hong Kong

University of California at Berkeley

 

Co-Editors

Zhongwei Shen, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Feng Shi, Nankai University, Tianjin

 

Editorial Board Members

HILARY M. CHAPPELL, EHESS-CRLAO, Paris

CHIN-CHUAN CHENG, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

BO HONG, Capital Normal University, Beijing

CHU-REN HUANG, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

GUILLAUME JACQUES, CNRS (CRLAO)-INALCO-EHESS, Paris

BIT-CHEE KWOK, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

YAFEI LI, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison

YEN-HUI AUDREY LI, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

JINGXIA LIN, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

TSU-LIN MEI, Cornell University, Ithaca

BARBARA MEISTERERNST, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu

ALAIN PEYRAUBE, CRLAO, Paris

JIAXUAN SHEN, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing

XIANGDONG SHI, Nankai University, Tianjin

WEI-TIEN DYLAN TSAI, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu

OVID J. L. TZENG, Academia Sinica, Taipei

FENG WANG, Peking University, Beijing

FUXIANG WU, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing

CHARLES YANG, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

BOPING YUAN, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

QINGZHI ZHU, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Manuscript Submission Guidelines for JCL publications

Please refer to http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/journal/jcl/submission.htm

Volume 53 Number 2 (April 2025)

Article

Parallel development of numerals and numeral classifiers in children’s acquisition of Mandarin Chinese

Yupin Chen and One-Soon Her

Lenition in Taiwanese Southern Min at the syntax phonology interface

Feng-fan Hsieh

The competing sound changes in the dialects of migrant communities of Linyi City

Junling Zhu

Contact or cognate: A case study of the sound correspondences between Cun and Hlai in Hainan

Chuntao Liu and Boyang Ni

Verbal complementation in Dgebshes Horpa (in Chinese)

Qianzi Tian and Jackson T.-S. Sun

On two types of volitional modal particles in Chinese dialects (in Chinese)

Xiaoxue Huang

Linguistic strata of contact and method of reference (in Chinese)

Shenqing Guo, Xiajun Liu, Shanshan Yan and Qi Cai

Memoriam

Remembering Bill

William S-Y. Wang

Report

Report of the International Conferences in Evolutionary Linguistics

Min Zhu, Yicheng Rong, Yi Weng, Yanyuan Ye, Fei Chen, Lihai Tan and Gang Peng

Volume 53 Number 1 (January 2025)
Volume 52 Number 3 (September 2024)
Volume 52 Number 2 (May 2024)
Volume 52 Number 1 (January 2024)
Volume 51 Number 3 (October 2023)
Volume 51 Number 2 (June 2023)
Volume 51 Number 1 (January 2023)
Volume 50 Number 3 (October 2022)
Volume 50 Number 2 (June 2022)
Volume 50 Number 1 (January 2022)
Volume 49 Number 2 (June 2021)
Volume 49 Number 1 (January 2021)
Volume 48 Number 2 (June 2020)
Volume 48 Number 1 (January 2020)
Volume 47 Number 2 (June 2019)
Volume 47 Number 1 (January 2019)
Volume 46 Number 2 (June 2018)
Volume 46 Number 1 (January 2018)
Volume 45 Number 2 (June 2017)
Volume 45 Number 1 (January 2017)
Volume 44 Number 2 (June 2016)
Volume 44 Number 1 (June 2016)
Volume 43 Number 2 (June 2015)
The Special Issue (in English) of volume 43 number 1B (2015)
Volume 43 Number 1A (January 2015)
Volume 42 Number 2 (June 2014)
Volume 42 Number 1 (January 2014)
Volume 41 Number 2 (June 2013)
Volume 41 Number 1 (January 2013)
Volume 40 Number 2 (January 2012)
Volume 40 Number 1 (January 2012)

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