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Information to Users INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be firom any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized copyright material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Oversize materials (e.g., maps, drawings, charts) are reproduced by sectioning the original, beginning at the upper left-hand corner and continuing from left to right in equal sections with small overlaps. 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Ann Arbor, MI 4X106 CHINESE MORPHOLOGY AND ITS INTERFACE WITH THE SYNTAX DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of tfie Requirement for tfie Degree Doctor of Philosoptiy in the Graduate Scchool of The Ohio State University by Xiang-ling Dai, B.Sc., M.A. ***** The Ohio State University 1992 Dissertation Committee: Approved by Catherine A. Callaghan Brian D. Joseph Carl Pollard A- Advisor Jam es H-Y. Tai Department of Linguistics Copyright by Xiang-ling Dai 1992 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First of all, I wish to express my deepest gratitude to my academic advisor Arnold Zwicky, who serves as the chairperson of my dissertation committee. His theoretical framework has enormously influenced me in forming the program of this thesis. Arnold tirelessly read, re-read and re-re-read all of my papers and this dissertation, making constructive criticisms, raising insightful questions and giving valuable suggestions. Without his constant academic and moral support, this work couid not possibiy appear in the current form. It is my pleasure to complete this thesis during the year that Arnold serves as the President of the Linguistic Society of America Thanks also go to the other committee members: Brian Joseph, Carl Pollard, Jam es Tai and Catherine Callaghan. Brian Joseph has been unfailingly encouraging, understanding and supportive of me in his five busy years of service as the chairperson of the Ohio State University (OSU) Department of Linguistics. I am greatly indebted to him for his feedback on my papers and this thesis and for his service as my advisor in the first two years of my four-year Ph.D tenure. It was his lecture on historical morphology and his (and Richard Janda’s) claim that no language can possibly lack both affixation and compounding that aroused my interest in Chinese morphology, leading to my first few publications in linguistics. I am immensely grateful to Carl Pollard for his extremely useful criticism of and detailed comments on early presentations of my papers and this dissertation. Special thanks go to James Tai for reading quite a few of my papers and chapters of this thesis, and encouraging my research in Chinese morphology, pointing out to me that this area had been virtually a gap in the literature of Chinese linguistics, it was his suggestion that led me to decide on the thesis’s topic. Catherine Callaghan has always been encouraging and supportive throughout my six-year study at OSU, reading and commenting on several of my papers and chapters of this thesis, even after her retirement. I am very thankful to her. My thanks also belong to the faculty members at OSU who taught me linguistics; Mary Beckman, Wayne Cowart, David Dowty, Tom Ernst, Mike Geis, Robert Levine, Joel Nevis and David Odden. To the OSU Graduate School, I offer my gratitude for honoring me as one of the Presidential Fellows in my final, dissertation, year. To the OSU Department of Linguistics, I owe much for the privileges and opportunities provided to me, including numerous graduate teaching, research and administrative asscciateships, as well as travel funds for me to attend linguistics conferences domestically and abroad. Thanks are also due to Marlene Payha and Chriss Large for their highly efficient and supportive administration of the Department office. I am also grateful to the OSU College of Humanities for the special grants which enabled me to present my papers at the Twenty-Third International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics held in Arlington, Texas in 1990 and the First International Conference on Chinese Linguistics held in Singapore in 1992. For their friendship and help, I thank the following people around OSU’s Cunz Hall and Oxiey Hall: Benjamin Ao, Jill Beckman, Christie Block, Hee-Rahk Chae, Marge Chan, Young Hee Chung, Monica Crabtree, Jason Frank, Qian Gao, Brad Getz, Jeanette Hoipp, Joy Hoyte, Wen-zhe Hu, Beth Hume, Kang Hyeonseok, Ken de Jong, Sun-Ah Jun, Andreas Kathol, No-Ju Kim, Claudia Kurz, Gina Lee, Sook-Hyang Lee, Use Lehiste, Mark Libucha, Philip Miller, Yong-Kyoon No, Frederick Parkinson, Craige Roberts, Ruth Roberts, Robert Sanders, Ying-yu Sheu, Uma Subramanian, Halyna Sydorenko, JianTang, Hideo Tomita, Lianqing Wang, Don Winford, Darryl Wylie, Chuck Yocom, Zheng-sheng Zhang, Zhiming Zhao, Guohe Zheng, and Ke Zou. Among them, I wish to single out Jason Frank for his thorough job of proofreading of my papers and this dissertation. As for people outside the OSU circle, I am grateful to Konrad Koerner, James McCawley and William Wang for recommending me for the OSU Presidential Fellowship, and their constant academic and moral support. I should also mention the following nam es for their help or support: Claire Chang, Matthew Dryer, San Duanmu, Li Fang, One-Soon Her, Chu-Ren Huang, Tom Hukari, Richard Janda, Zixin Jiang, Cheung Shing Leung, Joan Maling, KP. Mohanan, Jerry Packard, Eric Schiller, Chilin Shih, Richard Sproat, and Shi Zhang. Jam es Huang should be credited for his pioneering work on Chinese linguistics, which in turn stimulated my interest in the area. I owe a great deal to Syracuse University for sponsoring my graduate study in the U.S. and providing me with graduate scholarship and teaching assistantship, and to Tej Bhatia, Jaklin Komfilt, Mary Edwards, Jeannette Mocera, Patricia Moody, Beulah Rohrlich, William Ritchie and Martha Wright for teaching me introductory linguistics and other courses at Syracuse. Special thanks go to Tom Chang and Robert Laubach, for without their co-sponsorship, I would have been unable to come to the U.S. for study. Mei-lan Chai, Wei Fang and Ding Tan deserve my gratitute for teaching me English in Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China. Finally, I would like to thank my wife (Janet) Qing-fang Guo and my son (Mike) Meng Dai, who began to understand what I have been doing for these years for a living. I apologize to them for my being so often missing in their daily life, and dedicate this work to them. IV VITA July 24, 19 5 0............................................................... Born - Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China 1982 ...............................................................................B.Sc., Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China 1982-1984 .................................................................... Instructor of English, Nanjing Instit'jte of Meteorology 1985-198 6 ....................................................................instructor of Chinese, The U.S.-Sino Friendship Association,Syracuse,NewYork,USA;Graduate Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University 1986 .............................................................................. M.A., Syracuse University 1986-1988 ....................................................................Graduate Research and Administrative Associate, TheOhioStateUniversity, Columbus, Ohio, USA 1988 .............................................................................. M.A., The Ohio State University 1988-1991 ....................................................................Graduate Teaching Associate, The Ohio State University PUBUCATIONS The Head in M/O PAO DE KUAI. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 20:1. 84-119. (1992) Rethinking Case Theory for Constituency and Word Order in Chinese. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 27:1. (1992) Derivational-Inflectional Disitinction and Levels in Chinese Morphology. Chicago Linguistic Society 28:2. (1992) Fundamental Concepts in Chinese Morphology, international Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics 3. National Tsing Hua University. (1992) The Resultative DE as an Inflectional Morpheme in Chinese. Eastern States Conference on Linguistics 7. 67-78. (1991) The Negator BU and a Morphosyntactic Analysis of A-not-A Questions in Chinese. Chicago Linguistic Society 27:2. (1991) Historical Morphoiogization
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