Chinese 680 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics Autumn Quarter 1996

INSTRUCTOR:	Professor Marjorie Chan
	Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

	Office:	366 Cunz Hall, 1841 Millikin Road
	Dept. Fax:	292-3225
	Tel.:	292-3619 (Office) | 292-5816 (Dept)
	Office Hours:	Tues. and Thurs. 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., or by appt.
	Home Page:	http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/
	E-mail:	chan.9 @osu.edu (close the gap)

CALL NO.:

03651-9

CREDITS:

U G 5

CLASS TIME & PLACE:

T R 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. 102 Caldwell Laboratory

TEXTBOOKS:

1. Jerry Norman. 1988. Chinese. Cambridge U. Press. (Required. Available from SBX (1806 N. High Street). This textbook will also be used for Chinese 681.)
   (NB: Chapters from Huiying Zhang's Chinese translation of Norman's textbook will be made available later in the quarter.)
2. Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar. Berkeley: U. of California Press. (Required. Available from SBX.)
3. Readings Package and Supplementary Materials. Master copy kept in 208 Cunz Hall (DEALL reading room).

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1. Hu, Mingyang . 1991. (Selected Writings in Linguistics). Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin Daxue Chubanshe. (Excerpt: "." (Phonetic value of Beijing initial /w/), pp.244-245.)

2. Shen, Xiao-nan. 1989. "Interplay of the four citation tones and intonation in Mandarin Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 17.1:61-74.

3. Hung, Tony T.N. 1989. Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Chinese Tone Sandhi. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications. (Excerpt: Chapter 3, "Some neutral tone phenomena in Beijing Mandarin," pp.45-63.)

4. Shen, Jiong . 1987. "." (Phonetic differences of zero initial before finals beginning with u in the Beijing dialect.) Zhongguo Yuwen 5.352-362.

5. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1996. "Sound symbolism and the Chinese language." In: Proceedings of the 7th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL) and the 4th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL). Edited by Tsai Fa Cheng, Yafei Li, and Hongming Zhang. Volume II. Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Pp.17-34.

6. Sampson, Geoffrey. 1985. Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Excerpt: Chapter 8, "A logographic system: Chinese writing", pp.145-171.)

7. DeFrancis, John. 1989. Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (Excerpt: Part of Chapter 3, "Syllabic systems", pp.89-121.)

8. Liu, Jennifer. 1992. "Bridging language and culture: a cognitive approach to the study of Chinese compounds." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association XXVIII.3:1-19. (Note: The volume should actually be XXVII.)

9. Tai, James and Lianqing Wang. 1990. "A semantic study of the classifier tiao." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association XXV.1:35-56.

10. Tai, James H-Y. 1993. "Iconicity: Motivations in Chinese Grammar" In: Mushira Eid and Gregory Iverson (eds.), Principles and Prediction: The Analysis of Natural Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co. Pp.153-173.

11. Chen, Eileen Shu-Hui. 1988. "Functional theoretical perspectives on the 'modernization' of the Chinese language." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 16.1:125-150.

12. Farris, Catherine S. 1995. "A semeiotic analysis of sajiao as a gender marked communication style in Chinese." In: Unbound Taiwan: Closeups from a Distance, edited by Marshall Johnson and Fred Y.L. Chiu. (Select Papers Volume No.8) Chicago: Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago. Pp.1-29.

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1. UW-DMB 4.0 (try-and-buy version).
   It is being installed in a few of the computers in the Lab for students to try out. Its ease in toggling between Big-5 and GB codes makes it handy for reading and writing Chinese in the internet (for e-mailing, online data submission, etc.). It creates a Chinese environment within a Windows program (e.g., MS Word, Powerpoint, Paintbrush, Eudora, etc.) for processing Chinese fonts, to enable you to read, write, and print Chinese characters in that program.

2. Chinese Star (Windows 3.1 version).
   Chinese Star also creates a Chinese environment for running Windows programs. The version we currently have operates under Windows 3.1, although the latest version now runs under Windows 95. The version we have is installed in two computers (CZLAB04 and CZLAB21), located between the Macintosh and the Scanner. To run the program, you need to insert a boot disk. (Ask for it at the desk.) That will reboot the computer to load Windows 3.1 to run the program. (We opted for this choice last spring over bringing in a couple of older computers running under Windows 3.1.)

3. NJStar 4.0 (Runs under Windows 95).
   NJStar is a Chinese word-processing program. Dr. Shunde Jin informs me that he has installed the new version of NJStar 4.0 on some of the computers in the PC Lab. He has tried out the program and likes it.

4. Xin TianMa
   This is a DOS-based, dedicated Chinese word-processing program from AsiaCom. It is installed in three of the PC's. To run the program, click on the Xin TianMa icon. (The fonts are quite nice, even though it turned out that the upgrade DEALL purchased two summers ago still did not enable one to use a mouse.)
   
   I am currently (as of 11/28/96) testing out the academic version RisingSun, AsiaCom's program for CJK input for Windows environment. I am testing their academic version for Chinese text system for Windows 95 and 3.1 (4 diskettes, with bitmapped fonts only). The program has a number of very nice features: you can select traditional or simplified characters, or intermix them in the same document; there is a large dictionary of polysyllabic words for easy input; and you can back-convert your (highlighted) Chinese text into Pinyin romanization with tone diacritics added by the program (or you can enter tone diacritics manually for display and printout). While the program can be used as a decoder/encoder for web-browsing and web-publishing, I am encountering problems displaying Chinese text on the WWW in Windows 3.x using Netscape 3.0, and have not yet ascertained the source of the problem.

5. AsianViewer 1.1.
   This software from TwinBridge is great for reading Chinese on the Web because of its ease of use, although other programs may be better for font display and printout. Currently, AsianViewer can only be used for reading Chinese, and not for encoding purposes. However, I have learned that the upcoming new version of AsianViewer will be able to both decode and encode. Hence, it would have the same capabilities as UnionWay's UW-DBM 4.0, for example, namely, decode and encode all three East Asian languages -- Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. (I understand from our Chair, however, that there are some errors in display of Japanese.) The PC Lab in 126 University has installed a couple of copies of AsianViewer for browsing the web. When the program has both decoding and encoding functions, we will decide on the choice of which encoder/decoder to purchase.

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1. ONLINE CHINESE LANGUAGE TOOLS:
   • My ChinaLinks web site started out as a small number of links for my course page for Chinese 681 this past spring, but it soon became a separate web site. The site can serve as a launching ground for exploring other web sites for Chinese resources. If you are unfamiliar with web-browsing, be sure to read my introduction in that web page. Below are some resources that might be of interest to you in teaching -- or learning (as the case may be) -- Chinese this quarter. I will add to this list from time to time based on your input.

   • Adding Pinyin to Web Documents. This online application is for reading documents on the Web. It adds Pinyin romanization -- including tone marks -- to online documents (HTML and plain TEXT files) that are coded in GB or Big-5. Visit Erik Peterson's web site, The 10,000 Things, for other online Chinese language tools.

   • I have restructured my ChinaLinks web site this quarter (on 10/25/96), by subdividing it into a homepage, plus three satellite pages. The original web page had reached maximum capacity, so that new entries could be added only if old ones were deleted. With the present change, adding entries per se is no longer a problem. As a result, I have now added a new category, Chinese Language Resources for the Language Learner [since renamed -- 7/6/97]. There are only two links under that category at present (as of 10/25/96), but I hope to add a few more as time goes along, for those of you in the class interested in language teaching.

   • Internet resources available from the Chinese Online Reading Assistant (CORA) Project will form part of my presentation on 8 November 1996 on The CORA Project: Introduction and Demonstration.

   • I have begun to add links to home pages or faculty profile pages of the authors of the readings in this course. Links to the textbook authors can be found under "Textbooks"; links for other authors are placed under "Readings Package". Browse their pages to learn more about the authors and their departments amd programs.

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