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.
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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
Index terms are grouped together based on their first letter: A - Z. The entries in the Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics to which an index term refers, are mentioned after the term. Select the first letter of the index term:
- A
- Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms
- Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus
- Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia
- Acquisition of Bèi 被 and Bǎ 把, L1
- Acquisition of Classifiers and the Count-Mass Distinction, L1 (Mandarin)
- Acquisition of Discourse and Pragmatics, L1
- Acquisition of L2, Overview
- Acquisition of Logical Connectives and Focus, L1
- Acquisition of Nouns and Verbs, L1
- Acquisition of Oral and Written Chinese by Hong Kong Deaf Children
- Acquisition of Phonology, L1
- Acquisition of Relative Clauses, L1
- Acquisition of Semantics, L1
- Acquisition of Shanghainese, L1
- Acquisition of Sign Language by Hong Kong Deaf Children
- Acquisition of Syntax, L1, Overview
- Acquisition of Taiwanese, L1
- Acquisition of Tone, L1
- Acquisition of Tone, L2
- Acquisition of Word Order and Phrase Structure, L1
- Adjectives
- Adjectives in Excessive Reading
- Adpositions
- Altaic Elements in Chinese
- Altaic Languages
- Anaphora, Modern
- Ānóng 阿儂 Language
- Aphasia
- Apical Vowels
- Arabic in China
- Areal Typology
- Argument Structure
- Aspect, Modern
- Aspect, Premodern
- Aspectual Adverbs
- Atayal Language
- Austroasiatic Languages
- Austronesian Languages
- Author Identification and Dating of Texts
- Automatic Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis
- C
- Calques
- Categorical Perception
- Causative Constructions
- Character Amnesia
- Character Frequency
- Character Recognition and Phonological Access, Neurolinguistic Studies
- Chéngyǔ 成語 (Idiomatic Expressions)
- Chinese and Japanese
- Chinese and Thai
- Chinese as a Foreign Language at the University Level in the United States
- Chinese as a Foreign Language, Global Political Matters
- Chinese as a Foreign Language, Interlanguage and Acquisition
- Chinese as a Foreign Language, Linguistics and Pedagogy
- Chinese as a Global Language
- Chinese as a Heritage Language
- Chinese as a Monosyllabic Language
- Chinese Characters
- Chinese in Australia
- Chinese in Italy
- Chinese in Korea
- Chinese in Malaysia
- Chinese in Nagasaki
- Chinese in the Ryukyu Islands
- Chinese in the United Kingdom
- Chinese in the United States
- Chinese Linguistics in Eastern Europe
- Chinese Linguistics in Italy
- Chinese Linguistics in Korea
- Chinese Linguistics in Russia
- Chinese Linguistics in Scandinavia
- Chinese Linguistics in South America
- Chinese Linguistics in Spain
- Chinese Loanwords in Dutch
- Chinese Loanwords in French
- Chinese Loanwords in Middle Iranian
- Chinese Loanwords in Mongolic, Turkic and Manchu-Tungusic
- Chinese Loanwords in Portuguese
- Chinese Loanwords in Russian
- Chinese Loanwords in the Languages of Southeast Asia
- Chinese Loanwords in Vietnamese
- Chinese Telephone Conversation Corpus
- Chinese Writing
- Chóngniǔ 重紐 (Repeated Buttons)
- Classical Chinese
- Classifiers, Nominal
- Classifiers, Verbal
- Closed-mouth Finals
- Cognate and Dummy Objects
- Comparatives
- Compliments and Requests
- Computational Linguistics
- Concessives, Premodern
- Consonant Clusters
- Contraction
- Coordination: Conjunction
- Coordination: Disjunction
- Counterfactuals, Concessives and Hypotheticals, Modern
- Cultural Linguistics
- Cultural Revolution, Effect on Language
- Cyclical Signs
- D
- Dǎi 傣 Language
- DeFrancis, John (1911-2009)
- Demonstratives
- Děng 等 (Division and Rank)
- Derivation by Tone Change
- Development of Reading Skills in Children
- Development of Writing Skills in Children
- Developmental Speech and Language Disorders
- Dialect and Language Atlases of China
- Dialect Characters
- Dialect Classification
- Dialect Dictionaries
- Dialect Geography (Geolinguistics)
- Dialect Islands
- Diglossia
- Digraphia
- Dimidiation
- Directional Complements
- Discourse Markers
- Discourse Processing
- Disfluent Speech
- Disyllabification
- Donkey Anaphora
- Dōu 都
- Dragunov, A.A. [Александр Александрович Драгунов] (1900–1955)
- Dungan Language
- Dyslexia, Acquired, Neuro-imaging Studies
- Dyslexia, Developmental
- G
- Gàn 贛 Dialects
- Gay Language
- Generative Linguistics in Hong Kong
- Generative Linguistics in Mainland China
- Generative Linguistics in Taiwan
- Genericity
- Genetic Position of Chinese
- Glides, Phonological Status
- Graham, Angus C. (1919-1991)
- Grammaticalization and Lexicalization
- Guānhuà 官話, Historical Development
- Guànyòngyǔ 慣用語 Idioms and Common Sayings
- I
- Ideographic Fallacy: Sociolinguistics and Political Impact
- Illocutionary Acts of Requesting and Inviting
- Imperatives
- Impersonal Politeness
- Implicature
- Indirect Speech, Premodern
- Influence of Writing System on the Language
- Integrational Linguistics
- Intercultural Pragmatics
- Interface between Syntax and Semantics in L2 Chinese
- Interjections
- Internet Language
- Intonation
- Islands
- L
- Lāhù 拉祜 Language
- Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese
- Language Attrition
- Language Education in China: Teaching Foreign Languages
- Language Education in China: The Chinese Curriculum
- Language Games
- Language of Táng Poetry
- Language versus Dialect
- Languages and Language Families
- Lánqīng Guānhuà 藍青官話 and Non-standard Varieties of Standard Mandarin
- Layers in Dialectology
- Left Periphery
- Lexical and Sublexical Access
- Lexical Diffusion
- Lexical Semantic Processing, Neurolinguistic Studies
- Lexicography, Modern
- Li Fang-Kuei [Lǐ Fāngguī] 李方桂 (1902-1987)
- Light Verbs
- Linguistic Relativity
- Liù shū 六書 (Six Scripts)
- Loanwords from Japanese, 19th-20th Century
- Loanwords from Russian
- Loanwords in Mandarin through Other Chinese Dialects
- M
- Macau: Language Situation
- Manchu Language
- Mandarin, Varieties of
- Mǎshì wéntōng 馬氏文通
- Medieval Chinese Syntax
- Menzerath's Law
- Metaphor and Metaphorical Language
- Metaphor Processing
- Middle Chinese Phonology
- Mǐn 閩 Dialects
- Minority Languages in the PRC: Identification and Classification
- Minority Languages, Vitality of
- Missionary Linguistics
- Mixed Languages
- Modal Verbs, Modern
- Modal Verbs, Premodern
- Modern Lexicon, Formation
- Modern Mandarin Phonology
- Modern Mandarin Syntax
- Mongolian
- Morphological Processing of Compounds, Behavioral studies
- Morphological Processing of Compounds, Neurolinguistic Studies
- Morphology, Modern
- Movement Structures
- Musical Notation
- N
- National Language Movement
- Nàxī 納西 Language / Naish Languages
- Neurolinguistics, Overview
- Neutral Tone
- Nominalization
- Nonce Words and Characters
- Non-Chinese Substrates
- Non-IPA Symbols in IPA Transcriptions in China
- Non-Sinitic Languages of Northeast China
- Non-Sinitic Languages of Northwest China
- Non-Sinitic Languages of Southeast China
- Non-Sinitic Languages of Tibet
- Non-Sinitic Languages of Yúnnán and Sìchuān
- Northwest Medieval Chinese
- Notions of "Chinese"
- Notions of "Subject"
- Noun Modification
- Noun Phrase
- Number of Characters
- Numerical Superstition
- Nǚshū 女書 (Women's Script)
- P
- Palatalization
- Paleography
- Pedagogical Grammar
- Peking University Treebank
- Penn Chinese Treebank
- Perception and Production of Chinese Sounds by Non-native Speakers
- Personal Pronouns
- Phonemicization of Mandarin
- Phonetics
- Phonology, Overview
- Pidgins and Creoles
- Pínghuà 平話 Dialects
- Pivot Construction
- Polarity Items
- Politeness
- Pòyīnzì 破音字 (Graphs with Multiple Readings)
- Prague School of Linguistics
- Predicates
- Processing Classifiers and the Count-Mass Distinction
- Prosodic Morphology
- Psycholinguistics, Overview
- Psychological Reality of Linguistic Structure
- Punctuation, Modern
- Punctuation, Premodern
- Puyuma Language
- R
- Reading Characters and Words, Behavioral Studies
- Reciprocals
- Reference Processing and Discourse
- Relative Clause Comprehension, Neurolinguistic Studies
- Relative Clauses
- Resultatives
- Rgyalrong Language
- Rhetoric
- Rime (Rhyme)
- Rime Change
- Rime Dictionaries
- Rime Group
- Rime Tables and Rime Table Studies
- Rù 入 Tone Development in Běijīng Mandarin
- Rù 入 Tone Development in Mandarin Dialects
- Rù 入 Tone Development in Non-Mandarin Dialects
- Rukai (Tona) Language
- S
- Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Say-Complementizers: shuō 說, waa3 話, kong1 講
- Scalar Implicature
- Script Reform (1940-2002): Context and Policies
- Semantic Processing: Anaphora and Quantifier Scope
- Sentence Processing: Long Distance Dependencies
- Sentence Processing: Relative Clauses
- Sentence Processing: Resolving Garden-path Ambiguities
- Serial Verbs
- Shāng 商 Chinese
- Shāng 商 Chinese, Textual Sources and Decipherment
- Shànghǎi, The Language of
- Shàowǔ 邵武 Dialect
- Shē 畲 Language
- Shì 是 ... (de 的) Sentences
- Sibe Language
- Sign Languages, Hong Kong
- Sign Languages, Mainland China
- Sign Languages, Overview
- Sign Languages, Táiwān
- Simon, Walter (1893–1981)
- Singapore: Language Situation
- Sino-Caucasian and Sino-Yeniseiyan
- Sinoform Writing
- Sino-Islamic Linguistics
- Sino-Tai Hypothesis
- Sino-Xenic Readings
- Sìzì géyán 四字格言 (Four Character Maxims)
- Slang
- Sociolinguistics
- Spatial metaphor
- Speech Acts and Speech Act Verbs
- Speech Errors in Mandarin
- Speech Perception
- Speech Perception in Normally Developing Infants and Children
- Spoken Word Production, Behavioral Studies
- Spoken Word Production, Neurolinguistic Studies
- Stenography
- Stroke Order
- Sublexical Processes for Reading Chinese Characters, Neurolinguistic Studies
- Sui Language
- Suǒ 所
- Syllable Structure
- Syntax-Phonology Interface
- Systemic Linguistics
- T
- Taboo
- Tai-Kadai Languages
- Táiwān/PRC Divide and the Linguistic Consequences
- Táiwān: Language Situation
- Tea
- Telegraph Codes
- Tense
- Terms of Address, Modern
- Terms of Address, Premodern
- Tibetan Language
- Tibeto-Burman Languages of China
- Tonal Notation, Premodern
- Tonal Perception, Behavioral Studies
- Tonal Perception, Neurolinguistic Studies
- Tone
- Tone and Intonation
- Tone in Whispered Speech
- Tone Sandhi
- Tone, Music, and Singing
- Tonogenesis
- Topic and Comment
- Traditional Chinese Phonology
- Transcribing Foreign Names
- Transcription Systems, Overview
- Transcription Systems: EFEO System (French)
- Transcription Systems: For Cantonese
- Transcription Systems: Gwoyeu Romatzyh 國語羅馬字
- Transcription Systems: Hànyǔ pīnyīn 漢語拼音
- Transcription Systems: Wade-Giles (English)
- Transcription Systems: Zhùyīn fúhào 注音符號
- Transitivity System
- Tsou Language
- Typewriter
- Typology of Sinitic
- W
- Warring States to Medieval Chinese
- Wèi Jiàngōng 魏建功 (1901-1980)
- Wén bái yì dú 文白異讀 (Literary and Colloquial Readings)
- Western Views of the Chinese Language
- Westernization of Chinese Grammar
- Wh-questions, Modern
- Wh-questions, Premodern
- Wh-Words, Non-interrogative Use of
- Word and Wordhood, Modern
- Word and Wordhood, Premodern
- Word Classes, Modern
- Word Classes, Premodern
- Word Families
- Word Frequency
- Word Length
- Word Order, Modern
- Writing Systems for the Visually Impaired
- Written Language versus Spoken Language
- Wú 吳 Dialects