Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Subjecthood in Chinese 23
7. Characteristic syntactic patterns of Mandarin Chinese 49
8. The origins of Sinitic 73
9. Classifier choices in discourse across the seven main Chinese dialects 101
10. The painted word 127
11. Tone realization in younger versus older speakers of Nanjing dialect 147
12. Evaluating the emergence of [ʋ] in modern spoken Mandarin 171
13. The semantic constraints on the verb + zhe nouns in Mandarin Chinese 189
14. The semantic type system of event nouns 205
15. Semantic reanalysis in grammaticalization in Chinese 223
16. How linear distance and structural distance affect the processing of gap-filler dependencies in head-final relative clauses 247
17. Variation in Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi 271
18. The role of instruction in developing pragmatic competence in L2 Chinese 293
19. Author index 309
20. Subject index 311