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Peer reviewedCrosland, Jeff – Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 1998
Suggests that, in some Fujian Southern Min dialects, the patterns VP-neg and Adv-VP are mutually exclusive, presenting data from Xiamen to show recent innovations in the yes-no question pattern. Describes this innovation, explaining how the origin of the innovative patterns and limitations on their further development are influenced by…
Descriptors: Chinese, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Regional Dialects
Peer reviewedLin, Jo-Wang – Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 1998
Investigates the distribution of existential polarity wh-phrases (EPWs) in Chinese that behave like negative polarity items, examining the distribution of Chinese EPWs and arguing that using EPWs is felicitous if the local propositions in which they appear do not entail existence of a referent satisfying the EPW description. The paper considers…
Descriptors: Chinese, Grammar, Phrase Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Peer reviewedLight, Timothy – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1987
Discusses main ideas of papers presented that reflect the new directions explored in the field of Chinese linguistics. Current areas of study include tonal distinctions in dialect studies, contrastive analysis of Taiwanese and standard Chinese verb phrase structures, and the application of old Chinese morphological grammar to characteristics of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies
