Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics
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Subject: Language And Linguistics
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
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.
More information: Brill.com
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
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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.
More information: Brill.com
Bilingualism and Multilingualism
(3,378 words)
In principle, anybody can be bilingual and multilingual, as human beings have the capacity to learn as many languages as they are willing to and the social conditions allow. Indeed, the vast majority of the world’s population are bilingual and multilingual. Nevertheless, there are different pathways to bilingualism and multilingualism, and there are plenty of examples of people who either failed to acquire a language sufficiently to communicate with others in it, or those who, despite knowing other languages, function as monolinguals. The questions then are: What are the con…
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2017-03-02
Bilingualism, Childhood
(3,278 words)
In many parts of the world, there are children acquiring Chinese alongside one or more additional languages. For the purposes of this entry, we will consider any child who uses two or more languages on a daily basis to be bilingual. We will focus on Bilingual First Language Acquisition (BFLA) which we may define as the concurrent acquisition of two languages in a child who is exposed to them from birth and uses both regularly in early childhood (Yip 2013). By early childhood, we mean the preschool years up to around age five. The term “Chinese” encompasses a family of dialect groups whi…
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2017-03-02
Bilingualism, Neurolinguistic Studies
(3,442 words)
How does one brain handle two languages? How does the bilingual brain change in both function and structure as a result of learning a second language (L2)? Bilingualism and second language acquisition issues have attracted the attention of not just second language teachers and psycholinguists, but also neuroscientists. Neuroscientists used to rely primarily on clinical case studies of bilingual aphasic patients for understanding how the bilingual brain works. Today, they can identify the neural …
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2017-03-02
B (index)
(2,954 words)
bā guā 八卦 ‘eight trigrams’: Origin of the Chinese Writing System
Bā Jīn 巴金 (1904–2005): Esperanto
bǎ 把: Light Verbs
bǎ 把-construction: Areal Typology | Bǎ 把-construction | Movement Structures | Serial Verbs | Syntax-Phonology Interface | Systemic Linguistics | Warring States to Medieval Chinese
bǎ 把-construction, acquisition: Acquisition of Bèi 被 and Bǎ 把, L1
bǎ 把-construction, aspect: Aspect, Inner
bǎ 把-construction, coverbs: Serial Verbs
bǎ 把-construction, development: Warring States to Medieval Chinese
bǎ 把-construction, Medieval Chinese: Medieval Chinese Syntax
bǎ 把-cons…
Binomes
(3,440 words)
The designation "binome", Chinese
liánmiánzì 聯緜字 ~ 連綿字, more technically
liánmiáncí 聯緜詞 (excluding references to unanalyzable three-syllable expressions that share some phonetic feature), is a cover term for two different types of two-syllable expressions (in written form: two-character expressions) in Classical Chinese. Type I are those in which the two syllables have some significant phonetic feature in common, so that the expression is riming, alliterative or reduplicated. Type II are those that do not…
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2017-03-02
Bio-Taxonomical Terminology
(3,597 words)
The knowledge of modern biological sciences began to reach China during the second part of the 19th century and the local practice of the various sciences actually became a reality at the beginning of the 20th century, greatly aided by what had happened previously in Japan (Kuiper 1993; Masini 1993; Métailié 2001b). By that time, the principles of Western scientific nomenclatures for plants and animals were well known. Codes of nomenclature elaborated during international meetings had already es…
Date:
2017-03-02