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Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics PREVIEW Editor-in-Chief Rint Sybesma Associate Editors Wolfgang Behr, Yueguo Gu, Zev Handel, C.-T. James Huang, James Myers Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics (5 Volumes) Editor-in-Chief: Rint Sybesma, Leiden University Associate Editors: Wolfgang Behr, University of Zürich, Yueguo Gu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Zev Handel, University of Washington, C.-T. James Huang, Harvard University and James Myers, National Chung Cheng University · November 2015 · ISBN 978 90 04 18643 9 · Hardback (5 Volumes (4 + index volume)) · List price EUR 1,248 / US$ 1,716 · Pre-publication price EUR 1,040 / US$ 1,430 The Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics offers a systematic and comprehensive overview of the languages of China and the different ways in which they are and have been studied. It provides authoritative treatment of all important aspects of the languages spoken in China, today and in the past, from many different angles, as well as the different linguistic traditions they have been investigated in. In more than 550 articles, written by the major specialists in the field, it offers a synthesis of the most important research in Chinese linguistics and provides adequate and up to date bibliographical coverage. As such it is the reference source for information on: - the Sinitic and non-Sinitic languages of China, including Sign Languages: their lexicon, syntax and sound structure - their history and situation today - the writing systems: their emergence, development, spread and use today - the history of Chinese linguistics, both the indigenous and the Western traditions - the sociolinguistic situation, language contact and language variation - psycho- and neurolinguistic studies on Chinese, including first language acquisition - second language acquisition and language pedagogy - and many other aspects of Chinese and Chinese linguistics (e.g., Chinese in the diaspora, Chinese loanwords in other languages, history of lexicography, etc.). Also available online • More information on brill.com/eclo • Available from 2015 • E-ISSN 2210-7363 Purchase options and 2015 prices • Annual Subscription: EUR 480 / US$ 635 • Outright purchase: EUR 1,872 / US$ 2,490 Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics Editor-in-Chief: Rint Sybesma Associate Editors: Wolfgang Behr Yueguo Gu Zev Handel C.-T. James Huang James Myers List of Articles (subject to change) Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initialisms Borrowings into Mandarin Through Other Chinese Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia in Chinese Dialects Acquisition of Oral and Written Chinese by Brand Names Hong Kong Deaf Children Buddhism and Chinese Acquisition of Written Chinese Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Premodern Adjectives Borrowings (post-Qín) Adpositions Calligraphy Adverbs Calques Alphabet Categorical Perception Altaic Elements in Chinese Causative Constructions Altaic Languages of China Chao, Y.R. [Zhào Yuánrèn] 趙元任 (1892-1982) Ambiguity, Homonymy, Polysemy Character Amnesia Anaphora Character Frequency Anaphora, Premodern Chéngyǔ 成語 / Idiomatic Expression Ancient Chǔ 楚 Language Childhood Bilingualism Ancient Wú 吳 Language Chinese and Japanese Ānóng 阿侬语 Chinese and Korean Apical Vowels Chinese and Thai Applied Linguistics Chinese and Vietnamese Arabic in China Chinese as a Global Language Areal Typology Chinese as a Heritage Language Argument Structure Chinese as a Monosyllabic Language Aristotle in China Chinese Borrowings into Central-Asia Aspect, Modern Chinese Characters Aspect, Premodern Chinese Computational Linguistics Aspectual Adverbs Chinese Cultural Linguistics Atayal 泰耶尔语 (泰雅) Chinese Cyclical Signs (天干地支) Austroasiatic Languages of China Chinese Dialect Development Austronesian Languages of China Chinese Dialect Geography (Geolinguistics) Author Identification and Dating of Texts Chinese in Australia Bǎ 把-Construction/Disposal Construction Chinese in Court Bái 白语 Chinese in Italy Báihuà 白話, Colloquial Chinese Chinese in Korea Balanced Corpus of Academia Sinica, Modern Chinese in Malaysia Chinese Chinese in Nagasaki Behavioral Characteristics and Neural Correlates Chinese in the Ryukyu Island of Aphasia in Chinese Chinese in the UK Bèi 被 construction/Passive Chinese in the USA Běijīng Tree Bank Chinese Linguistics in Eastern Europe Běijīng, The Language of Chinese Linguistics in France Bilingualism Chinese Linguistics in German Speaking Countries Bilingualism, Neuro-imaging Studies Chinese Linguistics in Italy Binding Theory Chinese Linguistics in Japan Binomes Chinese Linguistics in Korea Bio-Taxonomical Terminology Chinese Linguistics in North America Boodberg, Peter A. [Пётр Алексеевич Будберг] Chinese Linguistics in Russia (1903-1972) Chinese Linguistics in Scandinavia Borrowed Vocabulary, 19th-20th Century Chinese Linguistics in South America Japanese Borrowings Chinese Linguistics in Spain Borrowings into (Hong Kong) Cantonese Chinese Linguistics in the Netherlands Chinese Loanwords in Dutch Developmental Speech and Language Disorders Chinese Loanwords in French Dialect Dictionaries Chinese Loanwords in Middle Iranian Dialect Islands Chinese Loanwords in New Persian Dialect versus Language Chinese Loanwords in Russian Dialect Writing Chinese Loanwords in the Languages of Dialect/Language Atlases of China Southeast Asia Didactics of Modern Chinese Chinese Loanwords in the Mongolic, Turkic Diglossia and Tungus Digraphia Chinese Loanwords in Vietnamese Dimidiation Chinese Sociolinguistics Directional Complements Chinese Speech Processing Discontinuity or Fault Lines: Jiǎgǔwén - Chinese Telephone Conversation Corpus Pre-Hàn - Post-Hàn Chinese Writing Discourse Markers Chinese Writing Systems for Visually Impaired Discourse Processing / Narrative Comprehension People Disfluent Speech Chinese Zodiac (十二生肖) Disyllabification Chóngniǔ 重紐 Donkey Anaphora Chou Fa-kao [Zhōu Fǎgāo] 周法高 (1915-1994) Dōu 都 Classical Chinese Double Object Constructions Classification of Chinese Dialects Dragunov, A.A. [Александр Александрович Classifiers, Nominal Драгунов] (1900-1955) Classifiers, Verbal Dúlóng (Trung) 独龙语 Cleft Sentences Dungan Language Closed-mouth Finals (-m) Early and Late Middle Chinese Syntax Cognate/Dummy Object Construction Early Borrowings into Chinese Color Terms Ellipsis and Gapping Comparatives Empty Categories Complement Encodings, Fonts and Input Systems Compliments and Requests Ergativity Concessives, Classical Ergativity and Unaccusativity Consonant Clusters Érhuà 兒化 Contraction Ěryǎ 爾雅 Coordination: Conjunction Esperanto in China Coordination: Disjunction Etymology Corpus Linguistics Excessive Reading of Adjectives Counterfactuals, Concessives and Hypotheticals Exclamatives Counterfactuals, Hypotheticals, Premodern Existential Coda Construction Cross-talk / xiàngshēng 相聲 Existential Sentences Cryptography Extinct Languages Dǎi 傣语 Face De 的/得/地 Fǎnqiè 反切 DeFrancis, John (1911-2009) Fieldwork Deixis Fifth Tone Demonstratives Figures of Speech Děng (Rank, Grade, Division) 等 Focus Děngyùnxué 等韻學 Food Terms Dentilabialization Foreigner Talk Derivation by Tone Change Forensic Linguistics in China Development of Writing Skills in Children Forensic Speaker Identification Free Relatives Jiéshéng 結繩 Functional Projections Jìn 晉 Dialects Gàn 赣 Dialects Jǐngpō (Kachin) 景颇语 Generative Linguistics in Hong Kong Kāngxī zìdiǎn 康熙字典 Generative Linguistics in Mainland China Karlgren, Klas Bernhard Johannes (1889-1978) Generative Linguistics in Taiwan Kinship Terms Genericity Korean Borrowings Genetic Position of Chinese L1 Acquisition of Bèi 被 and Bǎ 把 Glides, Phonological Status of L1 Acquisition of Cantonese Glottochronology and Lexicostatistics L1 Acquisition of Classifiers & Count-Mass Graham, Angus C. (1919-1991) Distinction (Mandarin) Grammaticalization and Lexicalization L1 Acquisition of Discourse and Pragmatics Graphs with Multiple Readings pòyīnzì 破音字 L1 Acquisition of Logical Connectives and Focus Grice’s CP, Pros and Cons in Chinese L1 Acquisition of Phonology Perspective L1 Acquisition of Relative Clauses Guānhuà 官話, Historical Development of L1 Acquisition of Semantics, Anaphora, Hakka (Kèjiā 客家) Dialects Quantifier Scope, Negative Polarity Haudricourt, André-Georges (1911-1996) L1 Acquisition of Sign Language by Hong Kong Historical Lexicon Deaf Children Historical Phonology L1 Acquisition of Syntax, Overview Historical Syntax L1 Acquisition of Taiwanese History of Chinese L1 Acquisition of Tone Hlai 黎语 L1 Acquisition of Words, Nouns and Verbs Hmong-Mien (Miáo-Yáo 苗瑤) Languages Competing for Attention of China L1 Acquisition, Overview Hong Kong English L1 Acquistion of Classifiers & Count-Mass Hong Kong, The Languages of Distinction across Chinese Dialects How to Transcribe Foreign Names L1 Acquistion of Syntax, Word Order and Phrase HowNet Structure HPags-pa L2 Acquisition of Chinese Tone Huī 徽 Dialects L2 Acquisition, Overview Huīzōng 徽宗 Secret Language Lāhù 拉祜语 Hypocoristics Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese Ideograph/Ideographic Fallacy/Ideography Language Acquisition, Dyslexia, Neuro-imaging Imperatives Studies Implicature Language and Politics, Political Discourse Indigenous Grammatical Traditions Language and Thought, Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Indirect Speech, Premodern Language Attrition Influence of Writing System on the Language Language Education, How Are Foreign Languages Instrument Notations Taught in China Integrational Linguistics Language Education, The Chinese Curriculum in Intercultural Pragmatics China Interface between Syntax and Semantics Language Games in L2 Chinese Language
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