Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Bianca Basciano

Chinese Linguistics

An Introduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 176mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9780198847830
• ISBN-10: 0198847831
• Artikelnr.: 62536228

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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