Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Announcement

Article

Visualizing cross-linguistic reading brains: Universality and interactive specificities

Junren Lee, Wen-Jui Kuo, Rose Ru-Whui Lee and Ovid J. L. Tzeng

Making some progress on the progressive aspect zài in Mandarin Chinese

Paul Waltraud and Shanshan Yan

Does Chinese need two structures for classifiers? A case study

Dandan Tan

Mental state, volition and argument realization

Jiajuan Xiong and Chu-Ren Huang

The role of breathy voice in Hmu tone perception

Wen Liu, Gang Peng and Jiangping Kong

Multi-functions of ʦɿ31-512 (phon512-20) “做（伴）” and its semantic changes of Jishui dialect in Jiangxi (in Chinese)

Guilan Li

Indefinite article kɤʔ5（个）and three types of indefinite noun phrases in Guangfeng dialect of Shangrao, Jiangxi (in Chinese)

Qingwen Zhang and Cui Jiang

Insight

The phonetic realization of laryngeal contrasts in Lili Wu Chinese: Evidence from tone-sandhi medial position

Menghui Shi, Ziyi Bai and Yiya Chen

Discussion

The apogee of misrepresentations: A long response to Shi (2023)

Yafei Li

Announcement

Article

Tone morphemes in sinitic: Where prosody meets morphology

Hilary Chappell

The “graphic design” for 旅 ‘troops’ and 車 ‘chariot’

Chrystelle Maréchal and Ken-ichi Takashima

Ten cases of continuum in language

Feng Shi and Dazuo Wang

Quest for the essence of Chinese grammar

James H-Y. Tai

The role of the copula 是 si7 in the construal of focus structure in early Southern Min

Chinfa Lien

A semantic-syntactic analysis of Chao’s sentences with a verbal subject and a nominal predicate (in Chinese)

Zhongru Xiong

Insight

On the raison d’être of the notion of Sprachbund, with special reference to languages in China

Pui Yiu Szeto

Foreword

A half-century of JCL

William S-Y. Wang

JCL, 50 years on 迈向未来

Shengli Feng, Jie Xu and Virginia Yip

Article

Challenging issues in Cantonese-English lexicography

Robert S. Bauer

Tracing variation in Old Chinese: What, if anything, was “yǎyán 雅言”?

Wolfgang Behr

Guttural fricatives and initial *w- in common Mǐn

W. South Coblin

The idea of an indigenous Chinese grammar

Hsin-I Hsieh

Understanding the Qieyun rhymes

Zhongwei Shen

Chinese finiteness: Changeability, actuality, durationality and telicity

Chaofen Sun

Insight

Wh & self: On correlating wh-conditionals and reflexive doubling

Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai

Message from the Editors

Article

The voiced and released stop codas of Old Chinese

Wuyun Pan and Zining Zheng

Various measures and the distinction of tense and lax contrasts: The case of Zhoucheng Bai

Xuan Li and Feng Wang

變化速度與構擬評估——基於漢語語檔歷時相似度計算的考察

Qibin Ran

The functional load of Chinese tones and the tonal evolution

Juan Liu, Chao Kong and William S-Y. Wang

Acoustic correlates of prominence in Kala Lizu (Tibeto-Burman)

Katia Chirkova, Pei-Yu Hou, Rada Chirkova and Angélique Amelot

The processing mechanisms of Mandarin wh-questions

Yang Yang, Leticia Pablos and Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng

湘語雙峰話語音的鼻化度考察

Xianming Bei

Romanized transcriptions of Cantonese prior to Robert Morrison’s: A study of the Whampoa dialect spoken in the 1820s as recorded in German sources

Xueqi Jiang and Chen Chen

Insight

Exploring the low applicative

Yafei Li and Zhe Chen

Book Review

Interface at a higher level: Review of Universal Grammar and Iconicity

Dingxu Shi

Message from the Editors

Article

Does Archaic Chinese have a marked subjunctive mood: Some evidence from modal negators

Barbara Meisterernst

機遇與挑戰：論當代漢語中的外來因素及其影響

Yanbin Diao and Yueli Lu

詞義感染與刪略生義

Fuxiang Wu

“以”表“認為”義的一組例子——兼論“以”的“太” 意義不可靠

Liu’an Yang and Fengbin Yang

合成複合詞系統的生成機制研究——基於語體語法的視角

Chunhong Shi

滿漢《清文指要》使役結構句式表達比較研究

Meilan Zhang and Mo Li

描寫與比較：廉江粵語的慣常體

Huayong Lin, Huachen Li and Ziwei Zhong

湘語非完整體標記“在屋裡”的聚焦度及其演變研究

Yunhua Wang

論現代湘語中的仙先之別及其早期形式的擬測

Ruiwen Wu

Message from the Editors

Article

Turning the tide: Reversing heritage language attrition and shift in a Chinese American family ba

Yen-Hui Audrey Li and Stephen Matthews

On the syntax of the negative marker mei6 in Cantonese

Sze-Wing Tang

On the big silent appositive time in dà NP de construction in Chinese: A compositional approach

Changsong Wang

Relative clauses in Archaic Chinese

Chen Zhao and Futong Zhang

藏語的小句鏈和副動詞

Mingyuan Shao

Early evidence of the Pareto principle in grammatical distribution: Causative situations in Chinese conversational discourse

Danjie Su

Triggering an implied clause: Insights from tso in Changde dialect

Qing Tang, Liu Han and Jingquan Han

臨夏話“們”的非復數用法及“們”的性質新探

Xing Liu and Chunfang Min

Insight

Response particles hai6 in Cantonese

Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng

On the biological basis of prosody: A response to Duanmu’s rhythmic analysis

Shengli Feng

Message from the Editors

Article

Asymmetric form-meaning mappings in L2 acquisition of Chinese sentence-final particles ba

Shanshan Yan and Boping Yuan

The musical language of Yuen Ren Chao: A cultural and empirical study of the modernization of Chinese music

Ivan Yifan Zou and William S-Y. Wang

A probe-goal approach to the minimality effect in Chinese modifier V-de construction

Zhe Chen

Locality effects and predictability in sentence construction: An investigation of ba sentences and SVO sentences in Mandarin Chinese

Yu Fang and Haitao Liu

A unified study of verbal and adjectival -haa5 in Cantonese

Qingwen Zhang and Jinwei Ye

河北方言的人稱代詞和指代詞“乜”[niɛ24]

Huayun Wang, Shuanjun An and Yuhong Sang

Bodily sensation and embodiment: A corpus-based study of gustatory vocabulary in Mandarin Chinese

Yin Zhong, Chu-Ren Huang and Sicong Dong

中古前期漢語母音前高化鏈移和引起的母音系統重組

Yong Zhao

Insight

On rhythm: Definition, representation, prediction, and verification

San Duanmu

Four different structures for locative resultatives

Rint Sybesma

Article

Formation of the typological view on Mandarin as a topic-prominent language: A review

Lanhui Zhu

Resultative serial verb constructions in Shaoxing Wu and Mandarin resultative verb compounds: A parametric view

Jialei Zhu and Yimin Sheng

The post-verbal pronoun KEOI in child Cantonese: A corpus-based study

Jiangling Zhou and Virginia Yip

組合構成還是整體演成? ——“越來越”歷史形成諸問題的考察

Wenlei Shi and Cui Wang

The development of the affective construction in the Chaozhou dialect since the 19th century

Yanxuan Huang

論清人“一聲之轉”的聲紐審音標准

Kun Ma and Miao Wang

Is Old Chinese dú 犢a loanword?

Yabei Cao

Review

A Phonological History of Chinese, by Zhongwei Shen

Zev Handel

Article

Disyllabic localizers in Modern Chinese

Xiaowen Nie and Feng-his Liu

最小詞條件與“V 不 C”的能性解讀來源

Liyuan Liu and Shengli Feng

Investigating the branching of Chinese classifier phrases: Evidence from speech perception and production

Marc Allassonnière-Tang, Ying-Chun Chen, Nai-Shing Yen and One-Soon Her

Statistical modeling of application completeness of two tone sandhi rules

Si Chen and Bin Li

An appositive analysis of Mandarin distributor ge

Jie Cheng

當方位遇上重疊：廉江粵語重疊方位短語研究

Qingwen Zhang and Huayong Lin

TAU +VP and clause-final TAU in Xiaolongmen, a Xiang dialect

Xia Liu and Karen Huang

《英語官話合講》(1865)所載中國學者最早創制的北京官話拉丁化拼音系統研究

Yan Li

Article

Exploring the historical layers of the Tangwang language

Dan Xu

Time and landscape at the beginning of Chinese writing

Kuang Yu Chen

On the emergence of the inverted double object construction in Hakka

Jui-chuan Yeh

Phonation variation and strategy of tone distinction: The case of Meiba Bai

Xuan Li and Feng Wang

The overture of Peking pronunciation’s victory: The first published Peking orthography

Ju Song

動量詞“卯”及其源流

Huayun Wang, Yaling Jing, and Lixin Sun

甲骨卜辭中干支修飾語的差異

Fei Deng

The contributions of language pathways in white matter to linguistic and cognitive processing after mild traumatic brain injury

Fan-Pei Gloria Yang

Article

The Polyfunctional Na7/Na2 那 in early Southern Min and its later developments

Chinfa Lien

Semantic-to-morphological sequencing: Constraints on Mandarin serial motion predication

Meichun Liu

Action-motion expressed by serial verb constructions in Standard Mandarin Chinese and Jinjiang Southern Min

Ying Fan

從語法化和方言接觸看馬來西亞華語“幾”

Liping Sun

The acoustic effect of speaking rate, focus and prosodic position on syllables in Chinese

Maolin Wang

基於古文字材料的上古漢語清鼻流音之歷史考察

Yuying Ye

Reconstruction and analysis of phylogenetic network on Tibeto-Burman languages in China

Tianjun Gao

Review

The Sinitic Languages: A Contribution to Sinological Linguistics, by Mieczysław Jerzy Künstler

Stephen Matthews

Article

Dipping tones in multi-register and four-level model

Xiaonong Zhu, Li Yi, Ting Zhang and Đình Hiền Nguyễn

Where to locate Mandarin localizers?

Chao Li

Is [ɤ] in Mandarin a transitional vowel? —Evidence from tongue movement by ultrasound imaging

Yu Chen, Ju Zhang, Jonathan Sieg and Yanting Chen

漢語韻律對漢語成語句法加工的影響

Chen Bai, Xiaoyan Xie and Shengli Feng

A special case marking system in the Sinitic languages of Northwest China

Chenlei Zhou

漢字盲文設計初探

Yu Sun and Chunlian Li

Why is homophonic discourse possible?

Hengxing He

Chinese evolution in recent 150 years: A diachronic study of word frequency in The Gospel of Mark

Cong Zhang and Haitao Liu

When and how the affricates /*tʃh/ and /*tʃ/ in initial positions of Proto-Mongolian diversified in Khalkha

Baoya Chen and Lin Yuan

Language contact across time: Classical Chinese on modern public signs in Taiwan

Halvor Eifring

An open letter

JCL, 45 years on

Shengli Feng and Virginia Yip

Article

Use of alternative characters in the annotations of ancient texts

Che Wah Ho

The acquisition of resultative verb compounds in Mandarin Chinese

Xiangjun Deng

The formation of the copula function ofwei為and the nature of the “wei為V” construction

Jianhong Zeng and Christoph Anderl

From proximate/obviative to number marking: Reanalysis of hierarchical indexation in Rgyalrong languages

Shuya Zhang

潮州話中古濁去字今讀分化的原因

Ligang Dai

Bilabial trill induced by fricative high rounded vowel: The emerging of “TB” in the Wu dialect of Su-Wan boundary

Dan Yuan, Feng Ling, Ruiqing Shen, and Menghui Shi

The polysemous lia̍h 力 in Early Modern Southern Min and its contemporary fate

Yunfan Lai

The lexicalization path of a topic-shifter 至於

Jung-Im Chang

Review

“輕動詞”與韻律形態在漢語歷時句法演變中的重要作用：評馮勝利《漢語歷時句法學論稿》

Alain Peyraube and Lisha He

Chinese Character Dictionary: A New Approach to Arranging, Explaining and Looking Up Chinese Characters, by Adrian van Amstel

Jonathan Webster

Directional Particles in Cantonese: Form, Function and Grammaticalization, by Winnie Chor

Yuk-man Carine Yiu

Report

CASS and UOM Joint Workshop on Language Maintenance

Gerald Roche and Simon Christie

Memoriam

Sergei Evgenyevich YAKHONTOV (1926-2018)

Alain Peyraube

An open letter

On Journal of Chinese Linguistics Transition

William S-Y. Wang

Article

Linking basic lexicon to shared ontology for endangered languages

Chu-Ren Huang, Shu-Kai Hsieh, Laurent Prévot, Pei-Yi Hsiao, and Henry Y. Chang

An investigation on syntactic disambiguation in Mandarin speech perception and the phonological status of the disyllabic foot

Ivan Chow

It’s more than eye to eye: Eye expressions inMandarin Chinese and German

Shelley Ching-Yu Depner

Two features of language contact in Outuan Hmong language (in Chinese)

He Fu-ling

Falling and rising “edge tones” in Mandarin Chinese

Patricia Mueller-Liu

On the strata and development of yu 魚 rhyme category in Southern Wu dialects (in Chinese)

Sun Yizhi

Review

Diversity in Sinitic Languages, ed. by Hilary M. Chappell

Bit-Chee Kwok and Yik-Po Lai

Report

The 9th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics

Peng Gang and Feng Yan

The 2017 Annual Meeting of Chinese Anthropological Society

Li Xiaofen and Sun Na

Memoriam

When the voice goes out … Kun Chang 張琨 (次瑤) 1917-2017

by H. Samuel Cheung

Zheng-Zhang Shangfang 鄭張尚芳 in memoriam

by Zhongwei Shen

Announcement

A congratulatory message from the co-editors

Book notice: Recent publications on Chinese language and linguistics

Liwei Jiao

Corrigenda

Article

Old Chinese in the excavated late archaic script: Problems of working with competing ideas in reconstruction

Haeree Park

A judgment study of length patterns in Chinese: Prosody, last resort, and other factors

San Duanmu; Shengli Feng; Yan Dong; Yingyue Zhang

A multimedia corpus of child Mandarin: The Tong corpus

Deng Xiangjun; Virginia Yip

Horizontal transmission and the merge of jian and tuan sounds in Beijing Mandarin in Qing dynasty (in Chinese)

Wang Weimin

An analysis of Taiwan Southern Min tetrasyllabic adjective reduplication

Yuchau E. Hsiao

The discourse flexibility of Zhao Yuanren [Yuen Ren Chao]’s homophonic text

He Hengxing

A typological investigation of disposal markers in Wu dialect (in Chinese)

Huang Xiaoxue

Unaccusative and unergative verbs in L2 English

Stano Kong

Article

VAT of the lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese

Kong Jiangping and Zhang Ruifeng

On construction of ke-VP interrogatives with you in Chinese dialects (in Chinese)

Lin Su’e

Beginning or on-going? 2b-3a tone change in Hong Kong Cantonese revisited

Ken Siu-Kei Cheng

On the evolutionary mechanism of disyllabic transitive verbs

Li Yanzhi and Wu Yicheng

New interpretations of yi 翌 in a group of oracle-bone inscriptions (in Chinese)

Deng Fei and Wen Xü

Tonal adaptation of English loanwords in contemporary Mandarin

Li Jian

Discussion

On the status of Buyang presyllables

Guillaume Jacques

Historical development of Chinese dialects: from perspective of geographical information (in Chinese)

Pan Wuyun

Review

The First Tibetan Language and Linguistics Forum

Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs; Sun Kai; Gnamsras Lhargyal and Chang Min

Multilingual Hong Kong: Languages, Literacies and Identities

Yaching Tsai

Report

International Symposium on the Major Project of NSSFC: Overseas Chinese Grammatical Studies: History and Database

Zhang Qingwen and Shi Dingyu

Memoriam

Zhou Youguang 周有光 (Jan.13, 1906-Jan. 14, 2017)

Victor H. Mair

Article

Contrastive phonation in Upper Donggu Horpa (in Chinese)

Jackson T.-S. Sun, Tian Qianzi, Chenhao Chiu

Fractions in the Suàn Shù Shū

Rémi Anicotte

Syntax and semantics of postverbal secondary predicates in Taiwan Southern Min

Huei-Ling Lin

Constructionalization of a set of connectives in Chinese

Zhan Fangqiong

The semantic and syntactic differences between 至於 and 至於 in Warring States period texts

Jung-Im Chang

Dispositional sentences in Huangxiao dialects (in Chinese)

Wang Huayun

Review

Review of A Grammar of Mandarin

Hilary M. Chappell

Review of The Sound and Sense of Chinese Poetry

Lian-Hee Wee

Report

Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL 8)

Conference on Spoken Chinese Corpora

Annual Meeting of Chinese Anthropological Society

POLA Young Scholar Forum on Chinese Linguistics

Announcement

Call for papers: CIEL 9

Corrigenda of volume 44, number 2

Article

Effects of text segmentation on silent reading of Chinese regulated poems

Chen Qingrong; Gu Wentao; Christoph Scheepers

Cognition and perception in the linguistic encoding of space in child Mandarin

Deng Xiangjun and Virginia Yip

A study of the late Qing rhyme book manuscript Yinyun Huayi 音韻畫一 and century phonological changes of shehong dialect (in Chinese)

Liu Yimeng; Li Wuwel

On determining matrix language of code-switching between southern Min and Mandarin

Wang Sunglan

”Bits”, “chunks” and “channel-switching”: Perceptions of Cantonese-English code-switching

Daniel Weston

On the relationship between acute-grave divergence of han rhyme in northern Song dynasty and separation of hanshan and huanhuan rhymes of northern dialects in Yuan dynasty (in Chinese)

Wang Weimin

Review

Waltraud Paul: New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax

Jingxia Lin

Report

Institute of Linguistic Science and Technology at Nanjing Normal University

Gu Wentao

Announcement

Doctoral Forum for Chinese Linguistics Oct 15, 2016, Nankai University

Article

Subjects, objects and relativization in Japhug

Guillaume Jacques

Topic and left periphery in Shanghainese

Han Weifeng and Shi Dingxu

Lexical diffusion in sound change (in Chinese)

Zhu Junling

mak5 kε4 乜個and man3 ηan2 瞞人in Hakka

Chinfa Lien

Grammatical diversity across the Yue dialects

Bi-Chee Kwok, Andy C. Chin, Benjamin K. Tsou

A study of the relation between personal pronouns and demonstrative pronouns (in Chinese)

Wang Huayun

Review Article

Such errors could have been avoided: Review of Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction

Ho Dah-an

Review

Review of A Grammar of Zoulei, Southwest China

Peter Jenks

Discussion

Liangdao Man and Austronesian origins

Laurent Sagart

Liangdao skeleton and the dangers of overinterpretation

Robert Blust

Report

7th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics

Chen Fei, Peng Gang

Article

The proto-motion event schema

Liu Meichun, Hu Chia-yin, Tsai Hsin-shan, and Chou Shu-ping

How language use shapes meaning

Teo Ming Chew

How does prosody influence verb-included compound (in Chinese)

Pei Yulai and Qiiu Jinping

Types of falling tones

Zhu Xiaonong

Devoicing of historically voiced obstruents in Xiangxiang Chinese

Zeng Ting

The origins and grammaticalization paths of le2 in Northern and Southern Mandarin (in Chinese)

Huang Xiaoxue

Discussion

Article for discussion: A Chinese phonological enigma

Geoffrey Sampson

Discussions

Matthew Chen, Daniel Silverman, Mieko Ogura, Abby Kaplan, Wang Feng, Wolfgang Behr, Feng Shengli

Reply to the Comments

Geoffrey Sampson

The Physiological Aspects of Phonetics edited by Prof. Jiangping Kong, Peking University

Article

The condition and change of 共vis-à-vis 合 in Southern Min with a sidelight on intra-dialectal variation

Chinfa Lien

The tone pattern in dialect contact (in Chinese)

Xianming Bei

Predicting NP forms in vernacular written Cantonese

Rebecca L. Starr

Breathy voice and low tone (in Chinese)

Zhongmin Chen

The historical relationship between Northern Wu and Min dialects from the perspective of comparative phonology

Wei Zheng

Strengthening of fricatives in language acquisition and lexical borrowing: The case of Sino-Vietnamese

Joungjun Jang

Ontology-based event relation prediction: A SUMO based study of Mandarin VV compounds

Jia-Fei Hong and Chu-Ren Huang

Some problems of CCD 6th ed.: With a call for a corpus-based Chinese lexicography (in Chinese)

Zequan Liu and Dandan Zhang

Discussion

On the cluster *sr– in Sino-Tibetan

Guillaume Jacques

The discovery of Liangdao man and its implications for the pre-Austronesian homeland

Paul Jenkuei Li

Review

Dialogue on Sound Change between W. Labov and W. S-Y. Wang (Mieko Ogura)

Report

Why do languages change? The International Workshop on Language and Human Complexity(Feng Wang)

The 6th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics( T. Gao and J. Jiang)

Special Issue

The Physiological Aspects of Phonetics (in Journal of Chinese Linguistics in Vol.43, No.1B)

Jiangping Kong ed.

Article

Demonstrative interjections in Huangxiao cluster of Jianghuai Mandarin

Huayun Wang and Daogen Cao

The origin and evolution of retroflex finals in Naish languages

Zihe Li

Origin evaluation on lai 來 initial words pronounced as s- in Sino-Vietnamese

Chia-lu Chiang

The diachronic development of zaishuo in Chinese: A case of polygrammaticalization chains

Rui Peng

Exploring the origin of Sino-Paekche Korean and the Min dialects

Ik-Sang Eom

Long and short passives in English speakers'L2 Chinese

Stano Kong

The phonological representation of Cantonese in two books by Joshua Marshman: The Macao dialect in the late eighteenth century

Masayuki Yoshikawa

Sino-Tibetan ŋ- and na-dene *kw- / *gw- / *xw-: 1st person pronouns and lexical cognate sets

Geoffrey Caveney

Review

Review of Pu yu Zhonghua minzu (Pu and the Chinese nation). by Jin Zhong

Bit-Chee Kwok

Review of evolutionary linguistics in the past two decades and EVOLANG 10: The 10the International Conference on Language Evolution

Tao Gong, Lam Yau Wai, Chen Xinying and Zhang Menghan

Publication

CLAO (FR), CCLPKU (CN), PUP (USA)

Announcement

Preliminary notice for The 6th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (Nov. 2014 Xiamen University)

Summer School for Cognitive Neuroscience (Sept. 2014 Taipei)

Article

Empirical characterization of modern Chinese as a multi-level system from the complex network approach

Haitao Liu and Jin Cong

Temporal sequence structure and the aspect marker -zhe in Chinese

Hui-hua Hwang and James H-Y.Tai

Disyllabic bound forms in modern Mandarin Chinese: An analysis of yiqian and yihou

Feng-his Liu and Christopher Oakden

Boundary tone and focus tone

Feng Shi and Ping Wang

The forms and meanings of English rising declaratives: Insights from Cantonese

John C. Wakefield

Acoustic characteristics of voiceless fricatives in Mandarin Chinese

Chao-Yang Lee, Yu Zhang and Ximing Li

On circumadverbials of Yushan dialect

Huayun Wang and Xiaolu Zhan

Effect of classifier system on object similarity judgment: A cross-linguistic study

Ruijing Wang and Caicai Zhang

3rd tone sandhi in standard Chinese: A corpus approach

Jiahong Yuan and Yiya Chen

Report

Report of The 5th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics

Guo Li and Quansheng Xia

Announcement

New Joint Research Center established to study language and human complexity

Inauguration speech: The Joint Research Centre for Language and Human Complexity (JRCLHC)

William S-Y. Wang

Memoriam

In memoriam: Edwin G. Pulleyblank (1922-2013)

Marjorie K.M. Chan

Article

The reality of compound ideographs

Geoffrey Sampson and Zhiqun Chen

The logic of Chinese syntactic structure

Chao Li

Counterfactual reasoning embodied in cognition rather than linguistic forms: Evidence from a developmental study in Chinese

Chingfen Hsu

A semantic and phonological comparison of the diminutive marker in Vietnamese and those in the Min dialects of China

Feng-fu Tsao, Quang Ngọc Kim and Thu Hà Trần Thị

Do Mandarin and English speakers think about time differently? Review of existing evidence and some new data

Jenn-Yeu Chen and Padraig G.O’Seaghdha

Cognitive models obtained by studying body-part names of Hakka and She

Xiaohua Deng and Xiaoling Deng

Aspectual marker： Issues of zhe of grammticalization in the history of Chinese and Wu dialects

Guofu Long and Chaofen Sun

The phonological variation of Zhouning dialect of the Eastern Min

Ligang Dai

Language experience influences non-linguistic pitch perception

Gang Peng, Diana Deutsch, Trevor Henthorn, Danjie Su and William S-Y. Wang

Review

A survey of recent research on brain and language cognition: A review of Nao yu Yuyan Renzhi (Brain and language cognition) edited by Minghu Jiang and Lin Wang

Lan Shuai and Tao Gong

A review of Li Fanggui quanji (The complete works of Fang-kuei Li) (13 volumes) edited by Pang-Hsing Ting et.al.

Tsu-Lin Mei

Article

Factors restricting the use of the locative preposition yu in classical Chinese

Jingxia Lin

Rapid large scale intra-nationality language shift in Hong Kong 1949-1971

Daniel W. C. So and Chun-fat Lau

Gesture and embodiment in Chinese discourse

Kawai Chui

On the so-called unbounded passives

Yicheng Wu

The predicate inflection in Yancheng dialect

Huili Zhang and Haihua Pan

Semantic analysis and contextual harmony of durations

Shuling Huang and Kehjiann Chen

Integrating textual and prosodic features in the interpretation of Chinese utterance-final-particles: A case of a andne

Bin Li

The polyfunctionality of kio3 叫 in Niri7 Kiann3 Khi3 《荔鏡記》: A framenet-based approach

Chinfa Lien

An ERP study on the semantic processing of unambiguous noun, unambiguous verb and verb-noun ambiguous word in Mandarin Chinese

Quansheng Xia, Yong Lv, Xuejun Bai and Feng Shi

Memoriam

Jerry Norman: Remembering the man and his perspectives on Chinese linguistic history

W. South Coblin

Report

Report of Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (2012)

Feng Wang

Article

Etymology and Palaeography of the Yellow River hé 河

Ken-ichi Takashima

Relation between the Development of General Classifiers and the Establishment of the Category of Numeral Classifiers in Chinese (article in Chinese)

Zhang Cheng

Diachronic Change of the Nasalized Diminutives in the Wu Dialects: An Optimality-theoretical Exploration

Mingchung Cheng

The Characteristic Foundation of Initial Consonant Matching in Uygur-Chinese Contact (in Chinese)

Zhaojin Du

The Phonology of Incomplete Tone Merger in Dalian

Te-hsin Liu

Nasals and Nasalization in Xiangxiang Chinese

Ting Zeng

Early Sound Values and Historical Evolution of the [zhi-si] Rime Category in Chinese (article in Chinese)

Hongzhi Wang

Adult English Speakers' Acquisition of Chinese Count-Mass Classifiers

Stano Kong

Review

Review of Introduction to Chinese Dialectology by Margaret Mian Yan

Robert S. Bauer

Report

Conference of Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching (ALLT) (2012)

Shih-ping Wang

The Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL) (2012)

Wentao Gu

New Publication

The Cahiers de Linguistique — Asie Orientale (2011 Volume)

Article

Multiregisters and four levels: A new tonal model

Xiaonong Zhu

The yu-dative construction “v+do+yu+io” in archaic Chinese: A constructional perspective

Chiew Pheng Phua

Zhuang word structure

Somsonge Burusphat and Xiaohang Qin

Distinguishing synonymous constructions: A corpus-based study of Mandarin lian…dou and lian…yeconstructions

Chueh-chen Wang and Lily I-wen Su

Chinese input methods: Overview and comparisons

Manson Cheuk-Man Fong and James William Minett

An ot-cc analysis of phonological opacity in Shaoxing trisyllabic tone sandhi

Jisheng Zhang and Jeroen M. van de Weijer

Cross-linguistic and inter-dialectal differences in tone perception by native speakers of three Chinese dialects and American English

Tsan Huang

On a type of verb complement structure in Yuan drama

Xiuli Wang

Tonal adaptation of English loanwords in early Cantonese

Carine Yuk-man Yiu

A daunting task? The acquisition of the Chinese ba-construction by nonnative speakers of Chinese

Xiaohong Wen

Review

Review of Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar by Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip

Arthur Holmer

Review of Tai-Kadai Languages edited by Anthony Diller，Jerold Edmondson， Yongxian Luo

Baoya Chen Chen and Zihe Li

Report

Report: International Conference on Shang and Early Chinese Civilization at Rutgers University (2011)

Kuang Yu Chen

Announcement

Congradtulation to Professor C.C. Cheng and to Professor P.H. Ting

New Publication

Korea Journal of Chinese Language and Literature (English edition)