The Semantics Of Chinese Classifiers And Linguistic Relativity

Author : Song Jiang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
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Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351967310

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The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity by Song Jiang Pdf

The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity focuses on the semantic structure of Chinese classifiers under the cognitive linguistics framework, and the implications thereof on linguistic relativity and language acquisition. It examines the semantic correlation between a given classifier and its associated nouns. Nouns in Chinese, which are assigned specific classifiers according to their selected characteristics, reflect the process of human categorization. The concrete categories formed by the relationship between nouns and classifiers may serve to explain the conceptual structure of the Chinese language and certain underlying aspects of culture and human cognition. Song Jiang is Assistant Professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at university of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Author : Song Jiang (Chinese teacher)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 1138291331

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The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity by Song Jiang (Chinese teacher) Pdf

The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity focuses on the semantic structure of Chinese classifiers under the cognitive linguistics framework, and the implications thereof on linguistic relativity and language acquisition. It examines the semantic correlation between a given classifier and its associated nouns. Nouns in Chinese, which are assigned specific classifiers according to their selected characteristics, reflect the process of human categorization. The concrete categories formed by the relationship between nouns and classifiers may serve to explain the conceptual structure of the Chinese language and certain underlying aspects of culture and human cognition. Song Jiang is Assistant Professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at university of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

Author : XuPing Li
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110289336

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Numeral Classifiers in Chinese by XuPing Li Pdf

This book studies the syntax and semantics of numeral classifiers in Mandarin and other Chinese languages. It explores how Chinese classifiers are semantically interpreted in syntactic contexts and how semantic functions of classifiers are realized at the syntactic level. The book is a contribution to formal Chinese linguistics, and to the understanding of grammatical properties of nominal phrases in Chinese and East Asian languages.

Author : Siew-Yue Killingley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Cantonese dialects
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039610865

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Cantonese Classifiers by Siew-Yue Killingley Pdf

Author : Rumjahn Hoosain
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134763771

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Psycholinguistic Implications for Linguistic Relativity by Rumjahn Hoosain Pdf

Rather than offering variations in "world view" as evidence for linguistic relativity, this book views language related differences in terms of the facility with which information is processed. Distinctive perceptual, memory, and neurolinguistic aspects of the Chinese language are discussed, as is the cognitive style of the Chinese people. Chinese orthography and other features of morphology and syntax are examined in relation to both bottom-up and top-down cognitive processes. While providing an extensive review of the experimental literature published in English on the Chinese language, this volume also offers a significant sample of the literature originally published in Chinese.

Author : Wei-lun Lu,Naděžda Kudrnáčová,Laura A. Janda
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258878

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Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication by Wei-lun Lu,Naděžda Kudrnáčová,Laura A. Janda Pdf

The studies in the present volume illustrate the current state-of-the-art in the corpus-based approach in cognitive linguistics, which seeks to motivate linguistic phenomena through the combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. By focusing on language use in different contexts from a variety of perspectives, each of the contributions in this volume presents its own unique take on the intertwined relationship between language, thought, and communication. Thus, each article shows how a combination of quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques helps shed new light on old issues, reflecting the usage-based nature of cognitive linguistics and illustrating the explanatory adequacy of corpus-based methods. Originally published as special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:1 (2019).

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Elena I. Mihas
Publisher : Explorations in Linguistic Typ
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198842019

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Genders and Classifiers by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Elena I. Mihas Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Every language has some means of categorizing objects into humans, or animates, or by their shape, form, size, and function. The most widespread are linguistic genders - grammatical classes of nouns based on core semantic properties such as sex (female and male), animacy, humanness, and also shape and size. Classifiers of several types also serve to categorize entities. Numeral classifiers occur with number words, possessive classifiers appear in the expressions of possession, and verbal classifiers are used on a verb, categorizing its argument. These varied sorts of genders and classifiers can also occur together. This volume elaborates on the expression, usage, history, and meanings of noun categorization devices, exploring their various facets across the languages of South America and Asia, which are known for the diversity of their noun categorization. The volume begins with a typological introduction that outlines the types of noun categorization devices and their expression, scope, functions, and development, as well as sociocultural aspects of their use. The following nine chapters provide in-depth studies of genders and classifiers of different types in a range of South American and Asian languages and language families, including Arawak languages, Zamucoan, Hmong, and Japanese.

Author : Dan Xu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110293982

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Plurality and Classifiers across Languages in China by Dan Xu Pdf

Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar. The contributions in this book focus on the typological correlation between the three different strategies for quantification, as well as on some general issues. A better understanding of the quantification strategies in the languages of China will enrich our comprehension of human language and thought. The book is expected to have an impact on the study of linguistic typology, language contact, and patterns of the evolution.

Author : Shu-Ling Wu,Lihong Huang,Carl Polley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781009186728

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Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese by Shu-Ling Wu,Lihong Huang,Carl Polley Pdf

An introduction to the key cognitive linguistics concepts that aid analysis of Chinese and inform L2 Chinese teaching and learning.

Author : Chu-Ren Huang,Shu-Kai Hsieh,Keh-Jiann Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317362838

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Mandarin Chinese Words and Parts of Speech by Chu-Ren Huang,Shu-Kai Hsieh,Keh-Jiann Chen Pdf

This monograph is a translation of two seminal works on corpus-based studies of Mandarin Chinese words and parts of speech. The original books were published as two pioneering technical reports by Chinese Knowledge and Information Processing group (CKIP) at Academia Sinica in 1993 and 1996, respectively. Since then, the standard and PoS tagset proposed in the CKIP report have become the de facto standard in Chinese corpora and computational linguistics, in particular in the context of traditional Chinese texts. This new translation represents and develops the principles and theories originating from these pioneering works. The results can be applied to numerous fields; Chinese syntax and semantics, lexicography, machine translation and other language engineering bound applications. Suitable for graduate and scholars in the fields of linguistics and Chinese, Mandarin Chinese Words and Parts of Speech provides a comprehensive survey of the issues around wordhood and PoS. Chapter 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and the appendixes V-VII of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com

Author : Zheng-Sheng Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317375272

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Dimensions of Variation in Written Chinese by Zheng-Sheng Zhang Pdf

Dimensions of Variation in Written Chinese uses a corpus-based, multi-dimensional model to account for variation in written Chinese. Using statistical method and two-dimensional visual representation, it provides a concrete and objective view of the internal variation in written Chinese. This book is a timely work that addresses the growing interest in quantitative genre analysis and how knowledge thus gained can contribute to the teaching as well as understanding of the Chinese language.

Author : Jiun-Shiung Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351660969

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Intensification and Modal Necessity in Mandarin Chinese by Jiun-Shiung Wu Pdf

This book addresses intensification and modal necessity in Mandarin Chinese. Intensification is used in this book to describe the speaker’s emphasis on a proposition, because, by emphasizing on a proposition, the speaker intensifies the degree of his/her confidence and affirmativeness toward the truth of a proposition, cf. the distinction between ‘weaker’ and ‘stronger’. Modal necessity discussed in this book refers either to the speaker’s certainty regarding the truth of an inference, judgment or stipulation, that is, epistemic necessity or to the speaker’s certainty concerning the obligatoriness of a proposition, based on rules or regulations, i.e., deontic necessity. This book examines a series of lexical items in Mandarin Chinese that express either intensification or modal necessity, provides a unified semantics and also presents how these lexical items are semantically distinct. Intensification and Modal Necessity in Mandarin Chinese is aimed at instructors, researchers and post-graduate students of Chinese Linguistics.

Author : Derek Allen
Publisher : National Library of Canada
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Bilingualism
ISBN : 0315152885

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Linguistic Determinism, Bilingualism and Chinese Noun Classifiers [microform] by Derek Allen Pdf

Author : Marc Allassonnière-Tang,Marcin Kilarski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249241

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Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania by Marc Allassonnière-Tang,Marcin Kilarski Pdf

Linguists have long been interested in systems of nominal classification due to their diverse functions as well as cognitive and cultural correlates. Among others, ongoing research has focused on semantic, functional and morphosyntactic properties of complex systems such as co-occurring gender and numeral classifiers. Such approaches have typically focused on the languages of north-western South America and Papua New Guinea. This volume proposes to fill in a gap in existing research by focusing on Asia, based on case studies from languages belonging to a wide range of families, i.e., Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Dravidian, Hmong-Mien, Indo-European, Mongolic, Sino-Tibetan and Tai-Kadai as well as the language isolate Nivkh. Gender and classifiers in these languages are approached within several different perspectives, i.e., functional, typological and diachronic, thus revealing complex patterns in their lexical and pragmatic functions as well as origin, development and loss. Describing and analysing such properties is a unique and innovative contribution of the volume.

Author : Tae Eun Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351253383

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Mandarin Loanwords by Tae Eun Kim Pdf

English-based Mandarin loanwords are commonly used in Chinese people’s daily lives. Mandarin Loanwords demonstrates how English phonemes map into Mandarin phonemes through Mandarin loanwords adaptation. The consonantal adaptations are the most important in the analyses, and vowel adaptation and tonal adaptation is also considered. Through the analysis, it is proven that the functions of phonology and phonetics play a significant role in Mandarin loanword adaptation, however the functions of other factors, such as semantic functions of Chinese characters and English orthography, are also discussed. Additionally, the phonetic symbolization of Chinese characters is mentioned.