New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-v

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2. Introduction

   • C.-T. James Huang, Y.-H. Audrey Li

   Pages 1-19

3. Tonal Geometry—A Chinese Perspective

   • Matthew Chen

   Pages 21-48

4. Recent Generative Studies in Chinese Syntax

   • C.-T. James Huang, Y.-H. Audrey Li

   Pages 49-95

5. Recent Developments in Functional Approaches to Chinese

   • Yung-O Biq, James Tai, Sandra Thompson

   Pages 97-140

6. Tonal Evolution and Tonal Reconstruction in Chinese

   • Pang-Hsin Ting

   Pages 141-159

7. Recent Issues in Chinese Historical Syntax

   • Alain Peyraube

   Pages 161-213

8. Stages and Strata in Dialectal History—Case Studies of Heng County, Da County, and Shipo

   • Dah-An Ho

   Pages 215-234

9. Linguistic Diversity and Language Relationships

   • William S.-Y. Wang

   Pages 235-267

10. Quantifying Dialect Mutual Intelligibility

    • Chin-Chuan Cheng

    Pages 269-292

11. Theoretical Issues in Language Development and Chinese Child Language

    • Thomas Hun-Tak Lee

    Pages 293-356

12. Neurolinguistics: A Chinese Perspective

    • Daisy L. Hung, Ovid T.-L. Tzeng

    Pages 357-379

13. Back Matter

    Pages 381-394

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The past decade and a half has witnessed a great deal of renewed interest in the study of Chinese linguistics, not only in the traditional areas of philological studies and in theoretically oriented areas of syn­ chronic grammar and language change but also in the cultivation of new frontiers in related areas of the cognitive sciences. There is a significant increase in the number of students studying one area or another of the linguistic structure of Chinese in various linguistic programs in the United States, Europe, Australia and in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and other parts of Asia. Several new academic departments devoted to the study of linguistics have been established in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the past few years. The increasing research and study activities have also resulted in a number of national and international conferences, including the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), which has been held annually in the United States; the International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL), which has had its fourth meeting since it was launched by Academia Sinica in Taiwan in 1990; the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (lACL), created in Singapore in 1992 and now incorporated in Irvine, California, which has held its annual meetings at major institutions in Asia, Europe, and the US.

• Chinese
• Syntax
• grammar
• language
• linguistics

• Department of Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, USA

  C.-T. James Huang

• Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures & Linguistics, University of Southern California, Log Angeles, USA

  Yen-hui Audrey Li

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