AUTUMN QUARTER 1999 CHINESE 680 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics 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 the textbook, as well as Huiying Zhang's Chinese translation of it.)

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 Packet. Available from Tuttle Copez (2055 Millikin Road, 292-2219 or 292-2000). This is a new facility just past the University Bookstore. Hours: 7:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. (Mon.-Fri.), and 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Sat. & Sun.).

4. "Sounds of the IPA" (60-min. audiocassette tape available in the Language Lab, 108 Cunz Hall. The tape is placed on the Temporary Shelf near the counter.)

Note: Textbooks are placed on one-day loans and some supplementary resources are placed on three-day loans at Main Library - check OSU Libraries' Course Reserves (by Prof/TA or Course) for an online list of books placed on Reserve for Chinese 680. (C680 reserved materials are listed online for the current quarter only.)

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 5.)
   Submit your project in one of the following formats: (a) as a hardcopy, together with a digitized copy on disk, in the instructor's mailbox in DEALL, 204 Cunz Hall, (b) as an HTML file placed online, or (c) as a .doc file via email as attachment. Include audiotaped recordings, sound files and/or other multimedia files if relevant.

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
		9/22	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
9/27	Articulatory Phonetics: Place and Manner of Articulation International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) The Sounds of the IPA (CD-ROM) Speech Internet Dictionary (SID) Phones & phonemes of English Reading (none): Explore the links above and read ahead.	9/29	Phonetics, Phonology and Romanization: The Initials (IPA, Pinyin, Wade-Giles) X-ray tracings, IPA charts, etc. MC's links to romanization charts Readings: Li & Thompson, Ch.1 Norman, Ch.6.3-6.4 Suppl. Reading: Hu (1991)

WEEK 3
10/5	Phonetics, Phonology and Romanization: The Finals (IPA, Pinyin, Wade-Giles) Audiotapes, sound files, IPA charts, etc. Reading: Norman, Ch.6.5 Suppl. Readings: Chan (1996a,b) Take-home assignment     (due 10/13/99 - note deadline change)	10/6	Typological Description and Grammar Readings: Li & Thompson, Ch.2 Norman, Ch.7.1-7.5

WEEK 4
10/11	Tone, Stress, and Intonation Sound files, waveforms, F0 tracings, etc. Readings: Norman, Ch.6.6-6.8 Shen (1989) Suppl. Reading: Shen (1990), Ch.1-2 Syllable ma in: Tone 1 to Tone 4 Intonation of declaratives and echo Q's containing a syllable in: Tone 1 | Tone 3 Intonation and ma/a S-final particles preceded by a syllable in: Tone 1 | Tone 2 | Tone 3 | Tone 4	10/13	Word Structure Reading: Li & Thompson, Ch.3 Take-home assignment: Due Wed., 1:30 p.m., 13 October 1999.

WEEK 5
10/18	In-Class Recording & Speech Analysis I Freeware/shareware for speech analysis	10/20	A Cognition-Based Study of Classifiers: Case of Tiao Reading: Tai and Wang (1990)

WEEK 6
10/25	In-Class Recording & Speech Analysis II (continued)	10/27	Simple Declarative Sentences Readings: Li & Thompson, Ch.4 Norman, Ch.7.6 Due: Project proposal and select references.

WEEK 7
11/2	Temporal Reference and the Two Le's Reading: Li & Thompson, Ch.6.1 & 7.1 Suppl. Reading: Chan (1980)	11/4	Ba and Bei Constructions Li & Thompson, Ch.15 & 16 (Note: A switch is made in scheduling of class activity between 11/4/99 and 11/8/99.)

WEEK 8
11/8	Sentence-Final Particles Readings: Chao (1968), Ch.8.5 Li & Thompson, Ch.7 (Review Week 4's examples with ma/a C889 seminar: "Intonation and SFPs"	11/10	Iconicity and Chinese Grammar Tai (1993) Suppl. Reading: Zhou (1998)

WEEK 9
11/15	Language and Gender Chan (1998) MC's online lg. & gender bibliography	11/17	Language Use in Context: Complimenting Reading: Ye (1995)

WEEK 10
11/22	The Chinese Script Readings: DeFrancis (1989) Norman, Ch. 7.7 (background reading)	11/24	Language Reform Reading: Norman, Ch.10

WEEK 11
11/29	Student Presentations	12/1	Student Presentations

WEEK 12:   EXAM WEEK
Term paper due: Monday, 6 December 1999, 5:00 p.m. (Note: 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.
   (See also some general observations on gender differences in education and opportunities in the concluding remarks in my 1998 article, "Sentence particles je and jek in Cantonese and their distribution across gender and sentence types." In: Engendering Communication: Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Women and Language Conference. April 24-26, 1998, Berkeley, California. Edited by Suzanne Wertheim, Ashlee Bailey, and Monica Corston-Oliver. 1998. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Women and Language Group. Pages 117-128.)

2. Chao, Yuen Ren. 1968. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Excerpt: Chapter 8.5 "Particles.")

3. 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.)

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. 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.

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

7. Ye, Lei. 1995. "Complimenting in Mandarin Chinese." In: Gabriele Kasper (ed.), Pragmatics of Chinese as Native and Target Language. Honlulu: U. of Hawaii Press. Pp. 207-302.

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

12. 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.)

13. Liao, Chao-chih. 1994. A Study on the Strategies, Maxims, and Development of Refusal in Mandarin Chinese. Taipei: Crane Publishing Co., Ltd.

14. Liao, Chao-chih. 1997. Comparing Directives: American English, Mandarin and Taiwanese English. Taipei: Crane Publishing Co., Ltd.

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

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

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

18. Shen, Xiao-nan. 1990. The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese. Berkeley: U. of California Pr. (Excerpts: Chapter 1 "Introduction" and Chapter 2 "Basic intonation patterns of Mandarin Chinese")

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

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

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

22. 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.

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

• Our College and University Internet Resources (links I had compiled for DEALL faculty, staff, and students)

• 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 were "under construction" in Autumn 1998; have not yet checked for the URLs)
  NOTE: How to cite a webpage -- include three pieces of information: title, URL, and date of access - for example:
  

  Marjorie Chan's Chinese 680: Introduction to Chinese Linguistics <http://deall.ohio-state.edu/chan.9/c680.htm> [Accessed 22 September 1999].

  (Or click here to cite this particular web page using "copy-and-paste." Hit 'BACK' on your web browser to return to this part of the web page.)

• OSU Libraries' On-Line Catalog (OSCAR) and other Library Catalogs
  Some working knowledge of Wade-Giles romanization is indispensable for conducting online library searches. If you are accessing the library with Big5-encoding and decoding capabilities, you can also telnet and select the VT100 version of OSCAR (login as library) to conduct searches in Chinese. Please also keep in mind that Main Library houses its East Asian collections in three locations: (1) "use in library" references are in the East Asian Studies (EAS) Reading Room; (2) publications in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are in the East Asian Studies (EAS) collection on the 9th floor; and (3) publications in English (and other Western languages) are elsewhere in the Main Stacks.

  Suggestion for help with selecting a topic for your term paper project: 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. One bibliography that got overlooked in the cataloging under "Chinese language -- bibliography" is William S-Y Wang and Anatole Lyovin's 1970, database-generated CLIBOC: Chinese Linguistics Bibliography On Computer. (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press). 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. In other cases, you may be interested in using some dictionaries as your source of data. One place to start is to search under 'SUBJECT' for Chinese language -- dictionaries, which will give you over 300 titles, including a few bibliographies of Chinese language dictionaries (some of which are two-way, Chinese-English/English-Chinese dictionaries).

  Main Library's collection includes specialized Chinese dictionaries of all kinds, such as dictionaries on classifers, verbs, or adjectives (or stative verbs), reverse dictionaries (hint: search under 'SUBJECT' for Chinese language -- reverse indexes for dictionaries organized based on the second morpheme in a compound; e.g., Hanyu Daopai Cidian (Han yu tao p'ai tz'u tien, MAIN/EAS Reading Room: PL1420 .H2985 1987), Han-Ying Niyin Cidian (Han Ying ni yin tz'u tien [A Reverse Chinese-English dictionary], MAIN Stacks: PL1455 .H335 1985), Daoxu Xiandai Hanyu Cidian (Tao hsu hsien tai Han yu tz'u tien, MAIN Stacks: PL1498 .T36 1987), and the reverse Chinese dictionary of verbal compounds, Dongci Nixu Cidian (Tung tz'u ni hsu tz'u tien, MAIN/EAS Reading Room: PL1235 .C46 1986), synonym (tongyi 'same meaning') dictionaries, antonym (fanyi 'opposite meaning') dictionaries, dialect (and bi-dialect) dictionaries and vocabulary compilations, loanword dictionaries, word frequency lists, etc.

  To assist you in your linguistic research, there are also various dictionaries amd glossaries of linguistic terminology. The OSU Libraries' collection includes:
  

  • R.R.K. Hartmann and F.C. Stork's (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics translated and compiled as a English-Chinese dictionary of linguistic terms, the 1981 Yuyan yu Yuyanxue Cidian (Yu yen yu yu yen hsueh tz'u tien), MAIN/EAS Reading Room: P29 .H3 4142 [use in library]
  • Frederick W. Donner's (1977) A Preliminary Glossary of Chinese Linguistic Terminology, MAIN Stacks: PL1108 .D65
  • Liu Yongchuan and Zhao Shikai's (1979) Ying Han Yuyanxue cihui (Ying Han yu yen hsueh tz'u hui, MAIN/EAS Reading Room: P29 .L58 [use in library]
  • Jiang Jianming's (1984) Han Ying Fenlei Cidian (Han Ying fen lei tz`u hui (A classified Chinese-English glossary), MAIN/EAS Reading Room: PL1455 .C56 1984 [use in library]
  • Fredric F. Weingartner and Paul Fu-mien Yang's (1985) Chinese-English and English-Chinese compilation, Zhongguo Yuyanxue Mingci Huibian, 1925-1975 (Chung-kuo yu yen hsueh ming tz'u hui pien, 1925-1975 (Chinese linguistic usage, 1925-1975: a contrastive glossary English and Chinese), MAIN (EAS): PL1171 .W428 1985

  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. (Hence, you might also want to check out our recent graduates' Chinese M.A. theses and Chinese Ph.D. dissertations for references.) 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: 1999 Tables of Contents (TOC) (for some linguistic journals, and links to back issues as well)

• Some journals:
  
  • Journal of Chinese Linguistics: Index of Articles (1973- ).
  • Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association: Authors and Topics Indices (1966- ).
  • Yuyan Jiaoxue Yu Yanjiu [English title: Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies] (No online indices -- Main (EAS): PL1004 .Y827)
  • Yuyan Yanjiu: Table of Contents Index (Eng./GB) (1981- )
    
    Part of Wenze Hu and Hongyin Tao's Chinese Linguistics Page.

    Zhongguo Yuwen: Table of Contents Index (GB for now, Eng. under construction) (1995- ).

• 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 (ChinaLinks.osu.edu -- Homepage with Table of Contents to 4 satellite pages and their contents)
  1. ChinaLinks1: General Resources for Chinese Studies
     Search engines (including the DEALL Search Engine for searching well over 1,000 webpages within our department's web subdirectory), publishers, Asian studies associations and journals (with indices), etc.
  2. ChinaLinks2: Chinese Language Software & AV Programs
     Downloadable CJK fonts and decoders, IPA and Pinyin fonts, RealPlayer, etc.
  3. ChinaLinks3: Chinese Language and Linguistics
     Chinese dialectology, Chinese linguistics associations and journals (with tables of content/indices), conferences, as well as such websites as the Bibliography of Synchronic Phonology of Chinese Dialects, Chinese Linguistics Page (with online Chinese linguistics articles), Virtual Tutorials in Phonology (VTP) site, etc.
  4. ChinaLinks4: General Linguistics and Internet Resources
     Links to linguistics associations and journals (with tables of contents and indices, etc.) -- including a link to the International Digital Electronic Access Library's website, which houses such publications as the Journal of Phonetics, with downloadable abstracts and recently-published, full articles (in PDF format) for OSU and other subscribing institutions (guest logins are also available); general references (including a link to the searchable, on-line Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries and references), other internet resources, transcription tools and (commercial and freely-downloadable) software for speech analysis; tutorials for acoustic phonetics, including G. Dillon's Resources for Studying Human Speech and CSLU - Center for Spoken Language Understanding's website for Spectrogram Reading; web-authoring tutorials and tools, etc.

• On-Line Dissertation Abstracts (on-line copy of my short piece for the IACL Newsletter, with hot links to websites, such as UMI, for abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations (and some M.A. theses))

• Marjorie Chan's Chinese Language and Gender On-Line Bibliography (bibliography, some web-accessible articles, online collections of gender-related course syllabi, etc.)

• Marjorie Chan's Courses and Sample Syllabi (readings and references may provide a handy source to look for research topics or for supplementary reading. See, in particular, an extensive set of references compiled in Spring 1999 for Chinese 580.)

• 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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