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The Following Is the List of East Asian Linguistics-Related Publications (As The following is the list of East Asian linguistics-related publications (as of February 2016) by our seven DEALL “East Asian Linguistics” faculty members’ (Chan, Nakayama, Noda, C. Quinn, Unger (Emeritus), Xie, & Yuasa). It shows not only our faculty members’ expertise, but also which issues have been investigated by them. Please note that the list does not include any linguistic reviews, abstracts, and encyclopedia entries, non-EA linguistics-related articles, and Pedagogy publications. Also it does not include translated books as separate entries. Linguistics in general Nakayama, M. (editor-in-chief) (2007-12) Journal of Japanese Linguistics 22-28. Minami, M. & M. Nakayama. (editors) (2013) Journal of Japanese Linguistics 29. Xie, Z. & T. Tsui. (eds.) (2015) Buckeye East Asian Linguistics (vol. 1). Columbus, OH: The Knowledge Bank. (http://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/73648) Yuasa, E, T. Bagchi, & K. Beals. (eds.) (2011) Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In Honors of Jerry Sadock. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Inagaki, S., S. Arita, M. Hirakawa, Y. Hirakawa, H. Morikawa, M. Nakayama, J. Tsubaki, & H. Sirai (eds.) (2009) Studies in Language Science Vol. 8. Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers. Chan, M. K. M., & H. Kang (eds.) (2008) Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20). 2 Volumes. Columbus, OH: East Asian Studies Center, The Ohio State University. Nakayama, M., M. Minami, H. Morikawa, K. Nakamura, & H. Sirai (eds.) (2006) Studies in Language Science Vol. 5. Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers. Minami, M., H. Kobayashi, M. Nakayama, & H. Sirai (eds.) (2005) Studies in Language Science Vol. 4. Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers. Minami, M., H. Kobayashi, M. Nakayama, & H. Sirai (eds.) (2004) Studies in Language Science Vol. 3. Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers. Nakayama, M. & C. Quinn, Jr. (eds.) (2001) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 9. Stanford: CSLI. Chan, M. K. M. & J. W. Jay (eds.) (1989) T'ang Studies 7. (Festschrift volume to honor Professor Edwin G. Pulleyblank from his students.) Chan, M.K.M. & T. Ernst (eds.) (1989) Proceedings of the Third Ohio State University Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington, Indiana. Chan, M.K.M. (ed.) (1984) Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Sino- Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Five volumes. Seattle: University of Washington. Chan, M.K.M. (ed.) (1984) University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics 8. Chan, M.K.M. (ed.) (1982) University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics 7. Chan, M.K.M. & K. Zagona (eds.) (1981) University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics 6. Yuasa, E, T. Bagchi, & K. Beals. (2011) Introduction. In E. Yuasa, T. Bagchi, & K. Beals (eds.), Pragmatics and Autoleixcal Grammar: In Honors of Jerry Sadock. xiii-xxvi. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Nakayama, M. (2010) Forward. In H. Kindaich’s Japanese Language. Xi-xiv. Charles E. Tuttle. Nakayama, M., Y. Shirai & R. Mazuka (2006) Introduction. In M. Nakayama, R. Mazuka, & Y. Shirai (eds.), Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics 2: Japanese. 1-10. Cambridge: 1 Cambridge University Press. Quinn, C.J. (2003) The Japanese tradition. In W. J. Frawley (ed.), History of Linguistics in International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edition, vol. 2. 193-97. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Phonetics/Phonology Peng, S., M. K. M. Chan, C. Tseng, T. Huang, O. Lee, & M. E. Beckman. (2005) Towards a Pan- Mandarin system for prosodic transcription. In S. Jun (ed.), Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing. 230-270. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Wong, W. Y. P., M. K. M. Chan, & M. E. Beckman (2005) An autosegmental-metrical analysis and prosodic annotation conventions for Cantonese. In S. Jun (ed.), Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing. 271-300. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chan, M. K. M. (2003) The digital age and speech technology for Chinese language teaching and learning. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 38.2. 49-86. Chan, M. K. M. (1996) Fuzhou glottal stop: floating segment or correlation of close contact? In J. Wang & N. S.H. Smith (eds.), Chinese Phonology. 275-289. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Chan, M. K. M. (1996) Some thoughts on the typology of sound symbolism and the Chinese language. In C. Cheng, J. Packard, J. Yoon & Y. You (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-8) Volume 2. 1-15. Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Chan, M. K. M. (1996) Sound symbolism and the Chinese language. In T. Cheng, Y. Li & H. Zhang (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL) and the 4th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL) Volume 2. 17- 34. Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Chan, M. K. M. (1995) An autosegmental analysis of Danyang tone sandhi: some historical and theoretical issues. New Asia Academic Bulletin (新亞學術集刊) 11. 145-184. (Special Issue edited by Eric Zee (徐雲揚編): Studies in Wu Dialects (吳語研究)). Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong. Chan, M. K. M. (1994) Post-stopped nasals and lateral flaps in the Zhongshan (Yue) dialect: a study of a mid-eighteenth century Sino-Portuguese glossary. In P. Li, C. Huang & C. Tang (eds.), Chinese Languages and Linguistics. Volume II. Historical Linguistics. 203-250 (= Symposium Series of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Number 2.). Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. Chan, M. K. M. (1991) Contour-tone spreading and tone sandhi in Danyang. Phonology 8.2. 237- 259. Chan, M. K. M. (1990) Prelinked and floating glottal stops in Fuzhou Chinese. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 35.4. 331-349. Chan, M. K. M. (1989) On the status of 'basic' tones. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 21.2. 5-34. Chan, M. K. M. and H. Ren (1989) Wuxi tone sandhi: from last to first syllable dominance. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 21.2:35-64. Chan, M. K. M. (1984) Stress and vowel quality changes in the Fuzhou Chinese dialect. University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics 8. 19-38. Chan, M. K. M. (1982) A response to Boltz' notes on Cantonese dentilabialization. Journal of the American Oriental Society l02.1. 107-109. (UTF-8) 2 Morphology/Syntax Tawa, W. & M. Nakayama (eds.) (1988) Proceedings of the Japanese Syntax Workshop. New London, CT: Connecticut College. Yuasa, E. (2009) Conflicting parts of speech categorization and the autonomy of syntax and semantics. The Sixteenth Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum Proceedings. 63-74. Yuasa, E. (2008) From the core to the periphery: the tense system in Japanese. Japanese Language and Literature 42.2. 495-510. Yuasa. E. (2008) An autolexical account of variation in grammatical relations. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. 285-299. Francis, E & E. Yuasa (2008) A multi-modular approach to gradual change in grammaticalization. Journal of Linguistics 44. 45-86. Yuasa, E. (2005) Modularity in Language: Constructional and Categorial Mismatch in Syntax and Semantics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Yuasa, E. (2005) Pseudo-independent clause: constructional mismatch in syntax and semantics. Language Sciences 27. 531-550. Yuasa, E. (2005) Exceptions in grammar. Linguistics and Japanese Language Education IV. 199-210. Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers. Yuasa. E. (2005) Independence in subordinate clauses: Analysis of nonrestrictive relative clauses in English and Japanese. In E. Francis, S. Mufwene & R. Wheeler (eds.), Polymorphous Linguistics: Jim McCawley's Legacy. 135-160. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Yuasa, E. & E. Francis (2003) Categorial mismatch in a multi-modular theory of grammar. In E. Francis & L. A. Michaelis (eds.), Mismatch: Form-Function Incongruity and the Architecture of Grammar. 179-227. Stanford: CSLI. Yuasa. E. & J. Sadock. (2002) Pseudo-subordination: a mismatch between syntax and semantics. Journal of Linguistics 38. 87-111. Sawasaki, K. & M. Nakayama (2001) Remarks on Japanese benefactive V-te moraw constructions. Eo-neo-yeon-gu [Journal of Studies in Language]. 17.2. 285-314. Langton, S. & M. Nakayama (1997) On Japanese adverbs orokanimo and wazato. In J. Kim, S. Oku, & S. Stjepanovic (eds.), 'Is the Logic Clear?' Papers in Honor of Howard Lasnik,UCONN Working Papers in Linguistics 8. 231-239. Tawa, W. & M. Nakayama (1996) Implicit arguments in Japanese potentials and resultatives. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 40.4. 423-440. Yuasa, E. (1996) Categorial mismatch: An autolexical account of formal nouns in Japanese. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. 423-432. Chan, M.K.M. & J. Tai (1995) From nouns to verbs: verbalization in Chinese dialects and East Asian languages. In J. Camacho & L. Choueiri (eds.), Sixth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. NACCL6 Volume 2. 49-74. Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Takahashi, S. & M. Nakayama (1995) Conditions on Japanese interrogative sentences. Journal of Japanese Linguistics and Education 2. 33-53. Nagoya Gakuin University. Uchida, Y. & M. Nakayama (1993) Japanese verbal noun constructions. Linguistics 31.4. 623- 666. Nakayama, M. & K. Tajima (1993) Purpose clauses in Japanese. Lingua 91.1. 1-32. Nakayama, M. & M. Koizumi (1991) Remarks on Japanese subjects. Lingua 85.4. 303-319. Nakayama, M. (1989) Empty copulas. In Y. Otsu (ed.), MITA Working Papers in 3 Psycholinguistics. 121-128. Tokyo: Mita Psycholinguistics Circle. Nakayama,
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