INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE LINGUISTICS AUTUMN 1998	Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan Dept. of E. Asian Lang. & Lit. The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 U.S.A.

1. Jerry Norman. 1988. Chinese. Cambridge U. Press. (Required. Available from SBX (1806 N. High Street, 291-9528). This textbook will also be used for Chinese 681 next quarter.)
   (NB: OSU Main Library has a copy of Huiying Zhang's Chinese translation of Norman's textbook.)
2. Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson. 1981. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar. Berkeley: U. of California Press. (Required. Available from SBX.)
3. Readings Package. Available from: 1. Main Library Reserve (1-day loan: ask for C680 Intro. to Chinese Ling. Readings, compiled by Marjorie Chan), and 2. DEALL Grad Reading Room (208 Cunz Hall).

This course investigates the phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, and writing system of the Chinese language. Also covered briefly are some topics relating language to culture and society.

This course is designed to familiarize graduate students, and upper-level undergraduate students in Chinese language and literature, with some basic knowledge of the structure of Mandarin (modern standard) Chinese. The course investigates the phonology and grammar of the language from a functional--as well as cognitive--perspective. A few readings have also been included for more detailed study of select topics. In addition, the course examines the Chinese writing system, and introduces some sociolinguistic issues for discussion. This course serves to prepare students for more advanced courses in Chinese linguistics, from theoretical as well as pedagogical perspectives.

The course will be conducted through lectures combined with class discussions of assigned readings and other class activities. Course work includes students' presentation of their research project.

Students are expected to read and reflect on all assigned readings prior to class, and are expected to attend class and to participate actively in class discussions and other class activities.

In addition, students are expected to:

1. Submit one take-home assignment (circa 4-5 double-spaced pages, including references).
2. Present an oral version of the research project in the last week of class.
3. Submit a term paper (circa 8-10 double-spaced pages, including references and appendices (if applicable)). (Obtain approval of term paper topic from the instructor no later than Week 6.)
   An on-line version (HTML or DOC file, or some other format) may be submitted in addition to, or in lieu of, a hardcopy.

There will be no midterm or final examination. Grading will be based on:

Class discussions/participation	25%
Take-home assignment	25%
Research project (all phases)	50%
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	100%

WEEK 1
		9/23	Orientation and Introduction: The Chinese Language and Its Dialects Norman, Ch.6.1-6.2 Li & Thompson, Ch.1 Suppl. Reading: Li (1973) Sino-Tibetan: Chinese (SIL's Ethnologue) Linguistic map: China (U. Texas Lib., 161k)

WEEK 2
9/28	Articulatory Phonetics: Place and Manner of Articulation International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) The Sounds of the IPA (CD-ROM) Phones & phonemes of English	9/30	Phonetics, Phonology and Romanization: The Initials (IPA, Pinyin, Wade-Giles) Li & Thompson, Ch.1 Norman, Ch.6.3-6.4 Suppl. Reading: Hu (1991) MC's links to romanization charts

WEEK 3
10/5	Phonetics, Phonology and Romanization: The Finals (IPA, Pinyin, Wade-Giles) Norman, Ch.6.5 Suppl. Readings: Chan (1996a, 1996b)	10/7	Tone, Stress, and Intonation Norman, Ch.6.6-6.8 Shen (1989) Syllable ma in Tones 1 to 4 Take-home assignment (due 10/15/98)

WEEK 4
10/12	In-Class Recording and Speech Analysis Freeware/shareware for speech analysis	10/14	(cont'd) Take-home assignment: due by Thursday, 3:00 p.m., 15 October 1998.

WEEK 5
10/19	Typological Description and Grammar Li & Thompson, Ch.2 Norman, Ch.7.1-7.5	10/21	Word Structure Li & Thompson, Ch.3

WEEK 6
10/26	A Cognition-Based Study of Classifiers: Case of Tiao Tai and Wang (1990)	10/28	Simple Declarative Sentences Li & Thompson, Ch.4 Norman, Ch.7.6 Turn in project proposal and select references.

WEEK 7
11/2	Temporal Reference and the Two Le's Li & Thompson, Ch.6.1 & 7.1	11/4	Ba and Bei Constructions Li & Thompson, Ch.15 & 16

WEEK 8
11/9	Iconicity and Chinese Grammar Tai (1993) Suppl. Reading: Zhou (1998)	11/11	No Class -- Veterans' Day

WEEK 9
11/16	Language, Gender, and Society Chan (1998) Optional: L&T, Ch.7.2-7.6 & 24 MC's online bibliography	11/18	Language and Culture Lan (1994) Sung (1979)

WEEK 10
11/23	The Chinese Script DeFrancis (1989) Norman, Ch. 7.7 (background reading)	11/25	Language Reform Norman, Ch.10

WEEK 11
11/30	Student Presentations	12/2	Student Presentations

WEEK 12: EXAM WEEK
Term paper due: Monday, 7 December 1998, 4:00 p.m. (Request for extension must be made by the end of Week 11.)

1. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1998. "Gender differences in the Chinese language: a preliminary report". Proceedings of the Ninth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Two volumes, edited by Hua Lin. Los Angeles: GSIL Publications, University of California. Volume 2, pages 35-52. (A hardcopy will be distributed in class.)

2. 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.)

3. Lan, H.R. 1994. "Her beauty is EATABLE: a culturo-linguistic study." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association XXIX.3:79-97.

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

5. Sung, Margaret. 1979. "Chinese language and culture: a study of homonyms, lucky words and taboos." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7.1:15-28.

6. 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.

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

1. Cao, Congsun. 1994. "Trends in Chinese loan-words." Journal of Macrolinguistics 5 (May 1994):114-119.

2. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1980. "Temporal reference in Mandarin Chinese: an analytical-semantic approach to the study of the morphemes le, zai, zhe, and ne." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 15.3:33-79.

3. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1996a. "Sound symbolism and the Chinese language." Proceedings of the 7th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL) and the 4th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL). Two volumes, edited by Tsai Fa Cheng et al. 1996. Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Pub., U. of Southern California. Vol. 2, pp. 17-34.
   MS Word7 DOC for Win95 (Big5, SIL IPA93 fonts) (For information on downloading fonts and viewing DOC files, please see my publications page.)

4. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1996b. "Some thoughts on the typology of sound symbolism and the Chinese language." Proceedings of the 8th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-8). Two volumes, edited by Chin-chuan Cheng et al. 1996. Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Pub., USC. Vol. 2, pp. 1-15.
   MS Word7 DOC for Win95 (Big5, SIL IPA93 fonts)

5. Chan, Marjorie K.M. and Baozhang He. 1988. "A study of the one thousand most frequently used characters." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 23.3:49-68.

6. Chen, Jianmin. 1994. "Why 'He Tongjian' changed her name." Journal of Macrolinguistics 5 (May 1994):88-90.

7. DeFrancis, John. 1984. The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

8. Hong, Wei. 1995. "An analysis of language changes in China since the 1980's." Linguistische Berichte 156:143-154.

9. Hong, Wei. 1997. "Language changes in Chinese: evidence from the service industry." Linguistische Berichte 167:23-31.

10. Hu, Mingyang . 1991. "Beijinghua shengmu W de yinzhi" () (Phonetic value of W initial in Beijing speech). In: Yuyanxue Lunwen Xuan () (Selected Writings in Linguistics) Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin Daxue Chubanshe. Pp. 244-245.
    (GB-encoded HTML file, based on Wenze Hu's original MS Word 6 DOC file in the Chinese Linguistics website.)

11. Li, Fang-kuei. 1973. "Languages and dialects of China." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1.1:1-13.
    (A condensed version, which first appeared in 1937 in the Chinese Year Book, Shanghai, was the first scientific classification of the Chinese language into dialect groups, together with other language families spoken in China.)

12. McCawley, James D. 1984. The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters. Chicago and London: U. of Chicago Press.

13. Meng, Guo. 1994. "Euphemism and social psychology." Journal of Macrolinguistics 5 (May 1994):105-113.

14. Ramsey, S. Robert. 1987. The Languages of China. Princeton: Princeton U. Press.

15. Yin, Binyong and John S. Rohsenow. 1994. Modern Chinese Characters. Beijing: Sinolingua.

16. Wang, James J. 1994. Outrageous Chinese: A Guide to Street Language. San Francisco: China Books and Periodicals, Inc.

17. Zhou, Minglang. 1998. "How to come (lai) and go (qu) in physical space and social space in Chinese." Proceedings of the Ninth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Two volumes, edited by Hua Lin. Vol. 1:412-427. Los Angeles: GSIL Pub., USC.

18. Zhou, Yimin and James J. Wang. 1995. Mutant Mandarin: A Guide to New Chinese Slang. San Francisco: China Books and Periodicals, Inc.

• net.TUTOR (OSU Libraries' set of online tutorials, such as developing research skills in using WWW and other Net resources)
• Student Resources for Compositions and Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement (Dartmouth College's Composition Center; OSU's resources are 'under construction')
  How to cite a webpage -- example:
  Marjorie Chan's Chinese 680: Introduction to Chinese Linguistics <http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/c680.htm> [Accessed 14 November 1998].
• MC's Online General Reference Tools (part of MC's ChinaLinks)

• OSU Libraries' On-Line Catalog (OSCAR) and other Library Catalogs
  (Suggestion: Start by searching under 'SUBJECT' in OSU's OSCAR for Chinese language -- bibliography. Our Main Library has several Chinese linguistics bibliographies (e.g., by Paul Fu-Mien Yang, Alain Lucas, Winston Yang et al., T. W. Kim and A. Wawrzyszko, Maurice Tseng, etc., including those in Chinese) that are useful for term paper topic selection and finding references. Such bibliographies (albeit some more dated than others) also provide valuable information on which journals you might check out for more recent articles relevant for your research topic. Besides conducting online searches for sources, do take time to browse through the stacks in sections of the library with books and journals on Chinese language and linguistics. Needless to say, references in recent publications are useful for additional sources. An important part of the purpose of writing a term paper is learning how to find sources in conducting your research and then how to fine-tune your research topic to something manageable for a term paper.)
• OSU Libraries' Chinese Collection (The introduction contains a description of the history, scope, size, and strengths of the collection (and that includes Chinese linguistics).) (Big5-encoding)
• Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) (library catalogs, research databases, etc.)
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) [WWW (OSU Columbus Only)]
• Linguistics and Language Indexes, Abstracts, Bibs, and TOCs (links to resources compiled by U. of Houston Libraries)
• Linguist List: 1998 Tables of Contents (TOC) (for some linguistic journals)
• J. of the Chinese Language Teachers Association: Authors and Topics Indices (1966 to present)
• MLA International Bibliography (index (1963 to present) to journals, books, dictionaries, dissertations, and conference papers on literature, languages, folklore and linguistics)
• Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks (Search engines, annotated China-related links, incl. Chinese lang. and ling.)
• Marjorie Chan's Courses and Sample Syllabi (readings and references may provide a handy source to look for research topics or for supplementary reading.)

• Working with Language: An Introduction to Language and Linguistics (Fall 1998 on-line course notes by Dr. Peter J. Silzer, SIL at Biola.)

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(This site received 219 hits between 6 June 1996 and 6 September 1998, and 612 hits between 6 September 1998 and 12 September 1999.) Originally created on 6 June 1996, and revised 6 September 1998 for Autumn 1998. The "Chinese 680" lettering was designed by Dr. Shunde Jin. Last update: 12 September 1999 for archiving this webpage. Copyright © 1996-99 Marjorie K.M. Chan. All rights reserved on course syllabus and on-line materials developed for the course. URL: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/c680-a98.htm