Chinese Linguistics - An Introduction

This volume provides a broad introduction to Chinese linguistics. It offers an accessible synthesis of the most relevant topics in the field both for researchers and scholars on China studies and for linguists, including those with little or no previous knowledge of Chinese.

List of contents

• Preface


• List of abbreviations


• Periodization of Chinese history


• 1: Introduction


• 2: Sinitic languages: A historical and typological overview


• 3: Chinese writing


• 4: The sounds of Chinese


• 5: Morphology and the lexicon


• 6: Topics in Chinese syntax

About the author

Giorgio Francesco Arcodia is Associate Professor of Chinese at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His work on Sinitic languages has appeared in multiple journals and in edited volumes, and he is the author of Lexical Derivation in Mandarin Chinese (Crane Publishing, 2012) and, with Caterina Mauri, of La Diversità Linguistica (Carocci, 2016). His research focuses on word formation, Chinese dialectology, and the typology of Sinitic languages.

Bianca Basciano is Associate Professor of Chinese at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She obtained a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Verona with a thesis entitled 'Verbal Compounding and Causativity in Mandarin Chinese'. Her research focuses on Chinese morphology and the syntax-semantics interface, especially on compounding, reduplication, resultatives, and causative constructions, and she has written a number of research papers on these topics. She is also the author of several entries in the Brill Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics and co-author of the entry on Morphology in Sino-Tibetan languages in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics.

Summary

This volume provides a broad introduction to Chinese linguistics. It offers an accessible synthesis of the most relevant topics in the field both for researchers and scholars on China studies and for linguists, including those with little or no previous knowledge of Chinese.

Product details

• Authors: Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco (Associate Professor of Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco (Associate Professor of Chinese Arcodia, Bianca Basciano, Bianca (Associate Professor of Chinese Basciano
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780198847847
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884784-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Chinese, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Grammar, syntax and morphology