InhaltsangabeList of Figures vii List of Tables ix Notes on Contributors x Foreword xiv Part I Syntax, Semantics, and Morphology 1 1 Morphology 3 WeiWen Roger Liao 2 Classifiers 26 Francesca del Gobbo 3 Adverbial Adjuncts in Mandarin Chinese 49 Thomas Ernst 4 Light Verbs 73 T.H. Jonah Lin 5 Topic and Focus 100 ShuIng Shyu 6 Aspect 126 Hooi Ling Soh 7 SentenceFinal Particles 156 Andrew Simpson 8 WhExpressions in Mandarin Chinese 180 JoWang Lin 9 Quantification and Scope 208 YenHui Audrey Li 10 The Syntactic Structure of Noun Phrases 248 Lisa L.S. Cheng and Rint Sybesma 11 Ellipsis 275 YenHui Audrey Li and TingChi Wei 12 Causal VVs in Mandarin 311 Alexander Williams 13 Comparatives 342 ChenSheng Luther Liu Part II Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody 367 14 Chinese Phonetics 369 WaiSum Lee and Eric Zee 15 Segmental Phonology 400 YenHwei Lin 16 Syllable Structure and Stress 422 San Duanmu 17 Tones, Tonal Phonology, and Tone Sandhi 443 Jie Zhang 18 Prosody and Syntax 465 Andrew Simpson Part III Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics 493 19 Bilingual and Multilingual Acquisition of Chinese 495 Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip 20 Neurocognitive Approaches to the Processing of Chinese 511 Ping Li, Hua Shu, and Youyi Liu Part IV Historical Linguistics 535 21 Historical Syntax of Chinese 537 Shengli Feng 22 Historical Phonology of Chinese 576 Zev Handel Part V Morpho-Syntax of Other Non-Mandarin Varieties of Chinese 599 23 Aspects of Cantonese Grammar 601 SzeWing Tang and SiuPong Cheng 24 Taiwanese Hokkien/Southern Min 629 MiaoLing Hsieh Index 657

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C.-T. James Huang is Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. His research interests lie in natural language syntax, the relationship between syntax and semantics, and parametric syntax with special focus on Chinese and other East Asian languages. He has published articles in a range of journals, including Linguistic Inquiry, Language, and Natural Language, and is the author of Between Syntax and Semantics (2009), The Syntax of Chinese (with Audrey Li and Yafei Li, 2009), and founding co-editor of Journal of East Asian Linguistics. Y.H. Audrey Li is Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. She has authored and edited several books, including Essays on the Representational and Derivational Nature of Grammar (with Joseph Aoun, 2003), Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation (edited with Andrew Simpson, 2003), and The Syntax of Chinese (with James Huang and Yafei Li, 2009). She has also published in a number of linguistic journals including the Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Language and Linguistic Inquiry. Andrew Simpson is Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Wh-Movement and the Theory of Feature Checking (2000), and editor of Language and National Identity in Asia (2007), and Language and National Identity in Africa (2008). He has published articles in a number of Linguistic journals, including Linguistic Inquiry, Language, Lingua, and The Journal of East Asian Linguistics. He is also joint general editor of The Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

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