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CHINESE 342/442 AUTUMN 2019 Chinese 442 Supplement to Chinese 342/442 Syllabus and Schedule

The readings in the right-hand column below are to be completed before the Friday Chinese 442 class meetings. Readings in italics are in Chinese; all others are in English.

You are expected to come to class having completed the readings; having read the guide questions on Canvas; and with questions or issues to raise and discuss.

Topic Readings for Friday Week 1 -- Week 2 Standards Simmons 2017; ECLL Lamarre: “Lánqīng Guānhuà” Week 3 Lexicon ECLL Masini “Modern Lexicon”; ECLL Duanmu “Word and Wordhood” Week 4 Phonetics and phonology Clark & Yallop 1990: 116-123, 124-132; ECLL “Phonemicization of Mandarin” Week 5 Chinese dialect groups F.-K. Li 1937:1-5; Hóu Jīngyī 1989:1-4 Week 6 Dialectal diversity ECLL Handel “Dialect Diversification”; ECLL Norman “Dialect Classification” Week 7 NO MEETING (midterm week) Week 8 Writing system – early development Boltz 1994:143–166 Week 9 Writing system – modern Yú Xiàlóng 1978; Handel 2013 Week 10 THANKSGIVING Week 11 Sino-xenic readings ECLL Osterkamp “Sino-Xenic Readings”

A short paper will be due at the end of the quarter, on any topic related to material in the course. Details and suggested topics will be provided at the end of Week 6.

Grading breakdown (replaces the breakdown on the Chinese 342 syllabus):

• Participation 5% • Reading Responses 5% • Homework 20% • Midterm 15% • Project and presentation 20% • Final examination 20% • Paper 15%

All readings (except those marked ECLL) are available in pdf format on the course Canvas site. The ECLL (Sybesma et al. 2017) readings are accessible via the UW library web site with a UW NetID.

CHINESE 442 Syllabus and Schedule Supplement 1 Full bibliographic citations for the readings, and for many additional readings that may find of interest for your paper assignment, are given below.

Boltz, William G. 1993. “Shuo chieh tzu”. In: Early Chinese texts: a bibliographical guide, edited by Michael Loewe, 429-442. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China and The Institute of East Asian Studies. Boltz, William G. 1994. The origin and early development of the Chinese writing system. (American Oriental Series, 78.) New Haven: American Oriental Society. Bottéro, Françoise, 2004a. “Chinese characters versus other writing systems: the origins of the distinction between ‘non-compound characters’ (wen) and ‘compound characters’ (zi)”. In: Meaning and Form: Essays in Pre-Modern Chinese Grammar, edited by Ken-ichi Takashima and Jiang Shaoyu, 1-17. München: Lincom Europa. Bottéro, Françoise, 2004b. “Revisiting the wen and the zi: the great Chinese characters hoax”. Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 74:14-33. [Note that BMFEA 74 is technically the 2002 issue, but as noted on the acknowledgment page it was distributed in 2004.] Chao, Yuen-. 1934. “The non-uniqueness of phonemic solutions of phonetic systems”. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 4.4:363-397. Reprinted in: Readings in Linguistics, edited by Martin Joos, 38-54. Washington D.C.: American Council of Learned Societies. , Ping. 1999. Modern Chinese: history and sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Clark, John and Colin Yallop. 1990. introduction to phonetics and phonology. Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell. Coblin, W. South. 2000. “A brief history of Mandarin”. Journal of the American Oriental Society 120.4:537-552. Downer, G.B. 1959. “Derivation by tone-change in Classical Chinese.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 22:258-290. Fäng Shïduó 方師鐸. 1965. Wûshí nián lái Zhöngguó guóyû yùndòng shî 五十年來中國國語運動史 [The history of China’s National Language Movement over the past fifty years]. Taipei: Guóyû Rìbào 國語日報出 版社. Gäo Míngkâi 高名凱 and Liú Zhèngtàn 刘正埮. 1958. Xiàndài Hànyû wàilái cí yànjiü 現代汉語外来詞研究 [A study of foreign words in modern Chinese]. Beijing: Wénzì Gâigé 文字改革出版社. Handel, Zev. 2013. “Can a logographic script be simplified? Lessons from the 20th century Chinese writing reform informed by recent psycholinguistic research”. Scripta 5:21-66. Hóu Jīngyī 侯精一. 1989. Jìnyǔ yánjiū 晋语研究 [A study of the Jìn dialects]. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages & Cultures of Asia & Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Kennedy, George. 1951. “The monosyllabic myth”. Journal of the American Oriental Society 71.3:161-166. (Reprinted in Tien- Li (ed.), Selected Works of George A. Kennedy (New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University), 1964, 104-118.) Li, -kuei. 1937. “Languages and dialects of China”. In: The Chinese Year Book, 59-65. Shanghai: Commercial Press. (Reprinted in Journal of Chinese Linguistics (1973) 1.1:1-13.) Li, Wen-Chao. 1999. A Diachronically-motivated segmental phonology of Mandarin Chinese. Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, 37. New York: Peter Lang. Li, Wen-Chao. 2004. “Conflicting notions of language purity: the interplay of archaising, ethnographic, reformist, elitist and xenophobic purism in the perception of Standard Chinese”. Language & Communication 24.2:97- 133.

CHINESE 442 Syllabus and Schedule Supplement 2 Norman, Jerry and Tsu- . 1976. “The Austroasiatics in ancient South China: some lexical evidence”. Monumenta Serica 32:274-301. Packard, Jerome L. 2000. The morphology of Chinese: a linguistic and cognitive approach. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press. Pulleyblank, E. G. 1983. “The Chinese and their neighbors in prehistoric and early historic times”. In: The origins of Chinese civilization, edited by David N. Keightley, 411-466. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. Simmons, Richard VanNess. 2017. “Whence came Mandarin? Qīng Guānhuà, the Běijīng dialect, and the national language standard in early Republican China”. Journal of the American Oriental Society 137.1:63-88. Sybesma, Rint, Wolfgang Behr, Yueguo , Zev Handel, James , James Myers, eds. 2017. Encyclopedia of and linguistics, 5 vols. Leiden: Brill. Electronic version available through UW library. Ting, -Hsin 丁邦新. 1988. Wúyǔ zhōng de Mǐnyǔ chéngfèn 吳語中的閩語成份 [The Min component in dialects]. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 59.1:13-22. Tung, T’ung-ho 董同龢. 1968. Hànyû Yïnyùnxué 漢語音韻學 [Chinese phonology]. Taipei: Guângwén Shüjú 廣 文書局. [Reprinted 1993 by Wáng Shôujïng 王守京.] Wagner, Donald B. 1990. The language of the ancient state of Wu. East Asian Institute Occasional Papers, 6. University of Copenhagen. Wáng Lìdá 王立达. 1958. “Xiàndài Hànyû zhöng cóng Rìyû jièlái de cíhuì 現代汉語中从日語借来的詞彙 [Japanese borrowings in Modern Chinese]”. Zhöngguó Yûwén 中国語文 68:90-94. [EAL Serials] Yú Xiàlóng 于夏龙. 1978. “Guānyú dì’èr cì hànzì jiǎnhuà gōngzuò de yìxiē yìjiàn 关于第二次汉字简化工作的 一些意见 [Some Views on the Second Simplification of Chinese Characters]”. Zhongguo Yuwen 中国语文 1978.2:127-129. Yuán Jiähuá 袁家骅驊. 1983. Hànyû Fängyán Gàiyào 汉语方言概要 [Outline of Chinese Dialects]. 2nd edition. Beijing: Wénzì Gâigé 文字改革出版社. -Hashimoto, Anne. 2003. “Chinese dialects: grammar”. In: The Sino-Tibetan Languages, edited by Graham Thurgood and Randy J. Lapolla, 84-125. London: Routledge. Zhän Bóhuì 詹伯慧. 1981. Xiàndài Hànyû Fängyán 现代汉语方言 [The dialects of Modern Chinese]. Wuhan: Húbêi Rénmín 湖北人民出版社. Zhèng Diàn 郑奠. 1958. “Tán Xiàndài Hànyû zhöng de ‘Rìyû cíhuì’ 談現代汉語中的“日語詞彙”[On ‘Japanese words’ in Modern Chinese’]”. Zhöngguó Yûwén 中国語文 68:95. [EAL Serials]

CHINESE 442 Syllabus and Schedule Supplement 3 The following linguistics dictionaries are helpful for technical terminology Crystal, David 戴维•克里斯特尔. 2000. Xiàndài yǔyánxué cídiǎn 现代语言学词典. Shāngwù Yìnshū 商务印 书馆. (English-Chinese, with a Chinese-English glossary; unfortunately not in the UW library) Hartmann, R.R.K. 1981. Yûyán yû yûyánxué cídiân 语言与语言学词典. Shànghǎi Císhū 上海辞书出版社. (East Asia course reserve) Wáng Jïnzhëng 王今铮. 1986. Jiǎnmíng yǔyánxué cídiǎn 简明语言学词典. Nèi Ménggǔ 内蒙古人民出版社. Gé Bênyí 葛本仪, ed. 1992. Shíyòng Zhōngguó yǔyánxué cǐdiǎn 实用中国语言学词典. Qīngdǎo 青岛出版社. Féng Chüntián 冯春田. 1995. Wáng Lì yûyánxué cídiân 王力语言学词典. Shāndōng Jiàoyù 山东教育出版社. (East Asia course reserve) Lee, Daniel T. 1971. Chinese-English glossary of linguistic terms. Washington: Center for Chinese Research Materials. Zhōngguó yǔyánxué dà cídiǎn 中国语言学大词典. 1992. Jiāngxī Jiàoyù 江西教育出版社. (East Asia reference) Táng Zuòfán 唐作藩, ed. 2007. Zhōngguó yǔyán wénzìxué dà cídiǎn 中国语言文字学大辞典. Zhōngguó Dàbǎikē Quánshū 中国大百科全书出版社. (Eas t Asia reference)

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