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AUTUMN QUARTER 2006 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. [ISBN: 0-521-29653-6 (pbk)] Required. Available from SBX (1806 N. High Street, (Tel) 291.9528).
   (Note that this textbook is also used in Chinese 681 "History of the Chinese Language."). OSU Libraries (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. [ISBN: 0-520-04286-7 (pbk)] Required. Available from SBX.

3. Additional Readings:
   Additional readings are typically e-journal articles that can be retrieved from OSU's online catalog. First, go to OSU Libraries <library.osu.edu>, and under Quicklinks, select "E-Journals" and find the relevant e-journal title. Alternatively, go to OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center (EJC) to locate the e-journal. (Note that one can also click "Search" at the EJC catalog website to locate a specific e-journal article via author name, article title, etc.) Some readings, scanned to PDF format by Electronic Reserves, are available for downloading at OSU Libraries. (Click under Quicklinks and select either "Reserves by Course" or "Reserves by Professor"). Other readings will be made available during the course.

Sullivant (Main) Library Reserve and Electronic Reserves:
Some reference books are placed on Reserve in Sullivant (Main) Library (3-day loans), as well as the two textbooks (2-hour loans). (Note: Reserved materials for a given course are listed online for the current quarter only.)

Note: The William Oxley Thompson Library -- a.k.a. "Main Library" -- is currently under renovation. Main Library Reserve is now housed in Sullivant Library, serving as the temporary Main Library. For where collections are stored during this three-year renovation project beginning this fall, consult OSU Libraries for changes and updates. Check OSU Libraries <library.osu.edu> for an online list of books and readings placed on Reserve and on E-Reserves for Chinese 680. Under Quicklinks, select either "Reserves by Course" or "Reserves by Professor".

This course investigates the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and writing system of the Chinese language. Also covered briefly are some topics relating language to cognition, 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 and cognitive linguistic issues for discussion. This course serves to prepare students for more advanced courses in Chinese linguistics, from theoretical as well as pedagogical perspectives.

Students are expected at the end of the course to have gained a basic knowledge of the linguistic structure of the Chinese as well as some information on such topics as the Chinese writing system. The student should be able to use that foundation to proceed to advanced graduate courses and graduate seminars in Chinese linguistics. A student with a strong Chinese language background should also be able to apply knowledge gained in the course to conduct more advance research on linguistic issues.

The course will be conducted through lectures combined with class discussions of assigned readings, individual and small-group assignments in class, and students' presentation of homework assignments and their individual research project. A mailing list for the class will also be used for dissemination of information and student-initiated discussions concerning topics brought up in class.

1. Read and reflect on all assigned readings prior to class lectures and discussion.
2. Attend class regularly, and participate actively in class discussions and individual/group activities.
3. Submit three homework assignments (each about 4 pages (about 3 pages for undergraduate students), double-spaced, not including references).[1]
4. For the term paper project:
   
   1. Turn in a one-page, double-spaced, term paper proposal with select references in Week 6. Submit a digital copy to the Dropbox for the course at Carmen.osu.edu.
   2. Present an oral version of the term paper project at the end of the quarter.[2]
   3. Submit a term paper in hardcopy and digital format (about 12 pages (about 10 pages for undergraduate students), double-spaced, not including references and images, if any).[3]
5. All course assignments in digital format are to be uploaded to your Dropbox in Carmen.osu.edu under Chinese 680.

[1] These may be a combination of short reactions papers and written responses to specific questions from the instructor based on the readings. The assignments should be submitted in hardcopy format and in digital format (RTF, PDF, or HTML format).

[2] Prepare a digital file in PowerPoint format for a PowerPoint presentation in class.

[3] Submit the term paper in hardcopy format and in digital format (RTF, DOC, PDF, or HTML). (If some other digital format is used, be sure to discuss it with the instructor first.)

DISABILITY SERVICES
Students with disabilities that have been certified by the Office for Disability Services will be appropriately accommodated, and should inform the instructor as soon as possible of their needs. The Office for Disability Services is located in 150 Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Avenue (Tel: 292.3307. TDD: 292.0901)

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY (ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT)
Academic integrity is essential to maintaining an environment that fosters excellence in teaching, research, and other educational and scholarly activities. Failure to follow the rules and guidelines established in OSU's Code of Student Conduct may constitute "Academic Misconduct." OSU's Code of Student Conduct (section 3335-23-04 Prohibited conduct) defines as academic misconduct "[a]ny activity that tends to compromise the academic integrity of the university, or subvert the educational process." Examples of academic misconduct include (but are not limited to) plagiarism, collusion (unauthorized collaboration), copying the work of another student, possession of unauthorized materials during an examination, and submission of the same work for credit in two (or more) courses. Ignorance of the University's Code of Student Conduct is never considered an "excuse" for academic misconduct; hence, be sure to review the sections dealing with academic misconduct in the Code of Student Conduct. Be sure also to read the University's Ten Suggestions for Preserving Academic Integrity and/or the Eight Cardinal Rules of Academic Integrity (from Northwestern U.). The University's policy on academic misconduct will be enforced in accordance with Faculty Rule 3335-5-54, and all alleged cases of academic misconduct will be reported to the Office of Academic Affairs' Committee on Academic Misconduct (COAM) for resolution. In addition, graduate students should be familiar with the Graduate Student Code of Research and Scholarly Conduct (pdf). Students with questions concerning the University's policies or questions concerning academic or research misconduct are encouraged to ask the instructor any time during the quarter.

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

WEEK 1
		9/21	Orientation and Introduction Carmen course management system; library facilities; software for linguistic research (concordancers, transcribers, speech-analysis software, etc.). Read ahead for next Thursday's class Suppl. (Optional) Readings: Chan (2002, 2003)

WEEK 2
9/26	Articulatory Phonetics: Place and Manner of Articulation International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) . International Phonetic Association and downloadable audio files (wav files) accompanying the languages illustrated in the Handbook of the IPA SIL's Unicode-based IPA font: Doulos SIL font -- IPA Help The Sounds of the IPA (CD-ROM) Vowels and Consonants (CD ROM Supplement), P. Ladefoged 2005 U. of Victoria's Phonetic Database (CD ROM) Speech Internet Dictionary (SID) (online searchable dictionary with illustrations and audio files; use the "Page" pull-down menu to select terms beginning with 'A', 'B', 'C', etc.) Phonetics Resources: Phones & Phonemes of English Explore the above links and read ahead for Thursday's class.	9/28	The Chinese Language: Dialects, Standards, and Changes Readings: Guo (2004) Swihart (2003) Li (2004) - skim Li & Thompson, Ch.1 (background reading) Norman, Ch.6.1-6.2 (background reading) Suppl. Reading: Li (1973) Linguistic Map: China (U. Texas Lib., 161k) Sino-Tibetan: Chinese (SIL's Ethnologue) Chinese Dialects (Glossika) C785: Modern Chinese Dialects

WEEK 3
10/03	Phonetics, Phonology, and Variation IPA charts, romanization charts, etc. Sound files, waveforms, F0 tracings, etc. Reading: Norman, Ch.6.3-6.8 Zhang (2005) Suppl. Reading: Shen (1989) Suppl. Readings: Chao (1968, Ch.1.3.6 (stress), Ch.1.3.7 (intonation) Speech Analysis Tutorial MC's ChinaLinks: Romanization Charts	10/05	In-Class Recording & Speech Analysis Commercial products & freeware/shareware for speech analysis Comparison of utterances: . Chinese 580 (Au00): Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 . Chinese 680 (Au00): Set 4 | Set 5 Due: Homework Assignment 1.

WEEK 4
10/10	Typological Description and Grammar Readings: Li & Thompson, Ch.2 Norman, Ch.7.1-7.5	10/12	Word Structure Reading: Li & Thompson, Ch.3     Guest lecturer: Hana Kang, DEALL

WEEK 5
10/17	Body Parts and the Metaphorical Use of Language Readings: Yu (2000, 2003, 2004) C889 seminar on Chinese corpus linguistics Due: Homework Assignment 2.	10/19	Simple Declarative Sentences Readings: Li & Thompson, Ch.4 Norman, Ch.7.6

WEEK 6
10/24	Temporal Reference and the Two Le's Readings: Li & Thompson, Ch.6.1 & 7.1 Suppl. Reading: Chan (1980)	10/26	Negation and Verb Copying Readings: Li & Thompson, Ch.12 & 13 Due: One-page project proposal and select references.

WEEK 7
10/31	Ba and Bei Constructions Readings: Li & Thompson, Ch.15 & 16	11/02	Imperatives and Questions Readings: Li & Thompson, Ch.14 & 18

WEEK 8
11/07	Pragmatics and Sentence-Final Particles Readings: Li & Thompson, Ch.7 Wu (2005) C889 seminar: "Intonation and SFPs"	11/09	Language Use in Context: Spoken Discourse Readings: Sun (2004) Wang and Tsai (2005) Due: Homework Assignment 3.

WEEK 9
11/14	The Chinese Script and China's Language Policy Readings: Coulmas (1989) Rohsenow (2004) Suppl. reading: Boltz (1996)	11/16	Language, Society, and Changing Modes of Written Communication Reading: Norman, Ch. 10 (background reading: Ch. 7.7) Gao (2006)     Guest lecturer: Wang Xu (M.A., Su '06)     "A Short Introduction to Chinese Sign Language"

WEEK 10
11/21	Putonghua, Local Speech, and Language Attitudes Readings: Zhou (2001) Saillard (2004) Lai (2005)	11/23	Thanksgiving Day - no class

WEEK 11
11/28	Student Presentations	11/30	Student Presentations

WEEK 12:   EXAM WEEK
Term paper due: Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 12:00 noon (Note: Request for extension must be made by the start of Week 11.)

1. TEXTBOOKS. (Specific chapters are assigned.)
   1. Norman, Jerry. 1988. Chinese. Cambridge U. Press. [PL1075 .N67 1988]
   2. Li, Charles N. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1981. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar. Berkeley: U. of California Press. [PL1107 .L5 1981]

2. ADDITIONAL READINGS.

Retrieve e-journal articles at OSU Libraries (click under Quicklinks to select "E-Journals") or go to OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center (EJC) to locate the e-journal. (At the EJC website, one can also click "Search" at the top menubar to search the database for the specific e-journal article via searching by "Any Field" (default setting), "Article Title", "Author Name", etc.) Readings scanned to PDF format by Electronic Reserves for this quarter's offering of Chinese 680 are available for downloading at OSU Libraries (click under Quicklinks and select either "Reserves by Course" or "Reserves by Professor"). Other readings will be made available during the course.

(For reference: Charts, figures, tables.)

1. Coulmas, Florian. 1989. The Writing Systems of the World. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, Inc. (Excerpt: Chapter 6, "An alternative to the alphabet: The Chinese writing system", pp. 91-110.

2. Gao, Liwei. 2006. "Language contact and convergence in computer-mediated communication." World Englishes 25.2:299-308. [OSU e-journal article]

3. Guo, Longsheng. 2004. "The relationship between Putonghua and Chinese dialects." In: Minglang Zhou (ed.), Language Policy in the People's Republic of China: Theory and Practice Since 1949. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pages 45-53. [E-Reserve]

4. Lai, Mee-ling. 2005. "Language attitudes of the first postcolonial generation in Hong Kong secondary schools." Language in Society 34:363-388. [OSU e-journal article]

5. Li, Chris Wen-Chao. 2004. "Conflicting notions of language purity: the interplay of archaising, ethnographic, reformist, elitist and xenophobic purism in the perception of Standard Chinese." Language and Communication 24.2: 97-133. [OSU e-journal article]

6. Rohsenow, John S. 2004. "Fifty years of script and written language reform in the PRC: The genesis of the Language Law of 2001." In: Minglang Zhou (ed.), Language Policy in the People's Republic of China: Theory and Practice Since 1949. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pages 21-43.
   [Also see PRC's 2000 language and script law (中华人民共和国国家通用语言文字法) at URL 1 or URL 2 (GB).]

7. Saillard, Claire. 2004. "On the promotion of Putonghua in China: How a standard language becomes a vernacular." In: Minglang Zhou (ed.), Language Policy in the People's Republic of China: Theory and Practice Since 1949. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pages 163-176. [E-Reserve]

8. Swihart, De-An Wu. 2003. "The two Mandarins: Putonghua and Guoyu." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 38.3:103-118. [E-Reserve]

9. Sun, Hao. 2004. "Opening moves in informal Chinese telephone conversations." Journal of Pragmatics 36.8: 1429-1465. [OSU e-journal article]

10. Wang, Yu-fang and Pi-Hua Tsai. 2005. "Hao in spoken Chinese discourse: Relevance and coherence." Language Sciences 27 (2005) 215-243. [OSU e-journal article]

11. Wu, Ruey-Jiuan Regina. 2005. "'There is more here than meets the eye!': The use of final ou in two sequential positions in Mandarin Chinese conversation." Journal of Pragmatics 37 (2005) 967-995. [OSU e-journal article]

12. Yu, Ning. 2000. "Figurative uses of finger and palm in Chinese and English." Metaphor and Symbol 15.3:159-175. [OSU e-journal article]

13. Yu, Ning. 2003. "Metaphor, body, and culture: The Chinese understanding of gallbladder and courage." Metaphor and Symbol 18.1: 13-31. [OSU e-journal article]

14. Yu, Ning. 2004. "The eyes for sight and mind." Journal of Pragmatics 36: 663-686. [OSU e-journal article]

15. Zhang, Qing. 2005. "A Chinese yuppie in Beijing: Phonological variation and the construction of a new professional identity." Language in Society 34, 431-466. [OSU e-journal article]

16. Zhou, Minglang. 2001. "The spread of Putonghua and language attitude changes in Shanghai and Guangzhou, China." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 11.2: 231-253.

1. Boltz, William G. 1996. "Early Chinese Writing." In: The World's Writing Systems. Edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 191-199.

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

3. 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. [See PDF file (.42 MB)]

4. 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. [See PDF file (210 KB)]

5. 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. [See PDF file (210 KB)]

6. 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 PDF file (240 KB)]
   (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.)

7. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 2000. "Gender, society, and the Chinese language." Conference-closing keynote lecture presented at the Eleventh North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 11) (18-20 June 1999, Harvard University). The NACCL-11 proceedings volume was compiled by Baozhang He and Wenze Hu. Cambridge: East Asian Language Programs, Harvard University. [See PDF file (198 KB, with pagination added as a stand-alone file)]

8. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 2002. "Concordancers and concordances: Tools for Chinese language teaching and research." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 37.2:1-58. [See PDF file (1.03 MB)]

9. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 2003. "The digital age and speech technology for Chinese language teaching and learning." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 38.2:49-86. [See PDF file (2.7 MB)]

10. 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. [See PDF file (1.6 MB)]

11. Chang-Smith, Meiyun. 2000. "Empirical evidence for prototypes in linguistic categorization revealed in Mandarin numeral classifiers." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 35.2:19-52.

12. Chao, Yuen Ren. 1968. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Excerpts: Chapter 1.3.6 "Stress," Chapter 1.3.7 "Intonation," and Chapter 8.5 "Particles.")

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

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

15. 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.)

16. Emerson, Tom. 2001. "Segmentation of Chinese Text". Multilingual Computing and Technology, #38 Volume 12 Issue 2. (Various approaches to the problems of separating the components of a sentence. Part of Multilingual Computing: Feature Articles.)

17. Ettner, Charles. 2002. "In Chinese, men and women are equal - or - women and men are equal?" In: Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men. Volume 2. Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bussmann. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co. Pp. 29-55.

18. Farris, Catherine S. 1988. "Gender and grammar in Chinese: with implications for language universals." Modern China 14.3:277-308.

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

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

21. Hong, Wei. 2002. "How does power affect Chinese politeness?" Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 37.2:59-73.

22. Hu, Mingyang (胡明扬). 1987. "Putonghua he Beijinghua" (普通话和北京话) (Putonghua and Beijinghua). Part II. In: Beijinghua Chu Tan (北京话初探)
    (The online article is a GB-encoded TEXT file at Hu Wenze's Chinese Dialectology webpage that is part of Hu Wenze and Tao Hongyin's Chinese Linguistics Page.)

23. Hu, Mingyang (胡明扬). 1991. "Beijinghua shengmu W de yinzhi" (北京话声母W音值) (Phonetic value of W initial in Beijing speech). In: Yuyanxue Lunwen Xuan (语言论文选) (Selected Writings in Linguistics). Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin Daxue Chubanshe. Pp. 244-245.
    (This online article is a UTF8-encoded webpage (converted from an earlier GB-encoded webpage that was based on Hu Wenze's original MS Word 6 DOC file housed at the Chinese Linguistics website.)

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

25. Lee, Ok Joo. 2005. The Prosody of Questions in Beijing Mandarin. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

26. 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.)

27. Li, Wendan. 2000. "Numeral-classifiers as a grounding mechanism in Mandarin Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 28.2:337-368.

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

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

30. Liao, Chao-chih and Mary I. Bresnahan. 1996. "A contrastive pragmatic study on American English and Mandarin refusal strategies." Language Science 18.3-4:703-727. [OSU e-journal article]

31. Lin, Huey Hannah. 2005. Contextualizing Linguistic Politeness in Chinese -- A Socio-Pragmatic Approach with Examples from Persuasive Sales Talks in Taiwan Mandarin. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

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

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

34. Packard, Jerome L. 2000. The Morphology of Chinese: A Linguistic and Cognitive Approach. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

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

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

37. 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")

38. Shi, Yu-zhi. 1996. "Proportion of extensions: the primary cognitive basis for shape-based classifiers in Chinese." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 32.2:37-60.

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

40. 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.

41. Tseng, Miao-Fen. 1999. A Pragmatic Study on Speech Acts in Chinese Invitational Conversations. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

42. 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.

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

44. Yuan, Yi. 1998. Sociolinguistic Dimensions of the Compliment Event in the Southwestern Mandarin Spoken in Kunming, China. Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University.

45. Zeng, Suzanne Marie. 1996. A Pragmatic Study of Chinese Interrogatives. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

46. Zhou, Minglang. 2001. "Language policy and reforms of writing systems for minority languages in China." Written Language & Literacy 4.1:31-65. [OSU e-journal article]

47. Zhu, Hua, Wei Li, and Yuan Qian. 2000. "The sequential organisation of gift-offering and acceptance in Chinese." Journal of Pragmatics 32:81-103. [OSU e-journal article]

• Ohio State University:
  
  • OSU's Online Resources at Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing (CSTW).
    Excellent resources, "handouts", tutorials, etc., to assist undergraduate students -- and those for whom English is a second (or third) foreign language -- in their research and writing. The Center also provides a web page on plagiarism, giving a definition of plagiarism, together with a set of Basic Citation Rules and Examples, including use of direct quotes versus paraphrasing, etc. To cite books for this course, one recommendation is to use the sciences style for bibliography and in-text citations in the Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide, available online from OSU Libraries.
  • 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 (Composition Center, Dartmouth College)
  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://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/c680.htm> (Autumn 2006) [Accessed 20 September 2006].

  (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.)

• On-line Resources for Documenting Electronic Sources (Online Writing Lab, Purdue University)

• OSU Libraries' On-Line Catalog (OSCAR) and other Library Catalogs
  The OSU Libraries catalogue currently uses Pinyin romanization for online library searches. 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. [Note: Main Library is currently under renovation. For where collections are stored during the renovation period, consult OSU Libraries for changes and updates.]

  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, MAIN/EAS Reading Room: PL1420 .H2985 1987), Han-Ying Niyin Cidian [A Reverse Chinese-English dictionary], MAIN Stacks: PL1455 .H335 1985), Daoxu Xiandai Hanyu Cidian, MAIN Stacks: PL1498 .T36 1987), and the reverse Chinese dictionary of verbal compounds, Dongci Nixu Cidian, 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, 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, MAIN/EAS Reading Room: P29 .L58 [use in library]
  • Jiang Jianming's (1984) Han Ying Fenlei Cidian (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, 1925-1975 (Chinese linguistic usage, 1925-1975: a contrastive glossary English and Chinese), MAIN (EAS): PL1171 .W428 1985

  Additional references provided by Guoqing Li, OSU Chinese Studies Librarian:
  

  • Chen Wei's (ed., 1998) Ying Han yu yan xue zi hui (= An English-Chinese Lexicon of Linguistics), MAIN Stacks: P29 .Y56 1998
  • Xu Jialu's (1990) Quantong Yuyanxue Zidian, MAIN Stacks: PL1071 .C5595 1990
  • Yuyan Wenzi Baike Quanshu (Zhongguo Dabaike Quanshu Chubanshe), MAIN Stacks: P29 .Y881 1994 (2 copies)
  • Zhongguo Yuyanxue Dacidian (English title: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Chinese Linguistics (Nanchang: Jiangxi Jiaoyu Chubanshe), MAIN/EAS Reading Room: PL1071 .C66 1992 [use in library]

  There are also word lists, glossaries, and dictionaries in digital form that is web-accessible, and some of them are searchable online, as given in my Word Lists and Online Glossaries/Dictionaries for Chinese (and Japanese). Other online resources include Chinese character frequency lists that are part of Jun Da's Chinese Text Computing Project website.

  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. If those webpages have not been updated, also check out my webpage containing a current list of my advisees' theses and dissertations.) 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.

• Ohio State University also subscribes to a number of linguistics journals with recent issues digitized and available online in PDF and/or HTML format. The benefits are many: it reduces shelving space, eliminates "lost" and "missing" items, and enables instantaneous downloading and multiple-user access for research and course work.

  To retrieve articles from these e-journals, go to:
  

  • OhioLink: Electronic Journal Center. (E-journals include Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Language, etc.) Alternatively, go via OSU Libraries' E-Journal Titles to search for an electronic journal or to browse alphabetically by title or by subject. Some sources of e-journals:
    
  • Cambridge Journal Online (OSU subscriptions include: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Language in Society, Language Teaching, Language Variation and Change, Phonology, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.)
  • ISTOR (Depository of back issues of journals, including e-journals for Asian studies, such as Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (beginning with Volume 1 (1936), Journal of Asian Studies (beginning with Volume 16 (1956) and archived Volumes 1-15 (1941-1956), published under the title, The Far Eastern Quarterly; OSU Columbus only))
  • Periodicals Contents Index (PCI): Electronic Index to Journal Articles. (Chadwyck-Healey's electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. (Participants in JSTOR's Arts & Sciences I and Arts & Sciences II Collections can now link directly from the relevant index records in PCI to the corresponding full text within JSTOR.)

• OSU Libraries' Chinese Collection (The introduction contains a description of the history, scope, size, and strengths of the collection (and that includes Chinese linguistics). Also available are PDF files with lists of recent acquisitions.)

• Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) (library catalogs, research databases, etc.)

• OhioLINK - Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Center. The ETD Center is a free, online database of the state of Ohio's masters and doctoral theses and dissertations from participating OhioLINK member schools. It contains the abstract for all included theses and dissertations. The full-text is also available if it was submitted.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
  Proquest's database contains citations for dissertations and theses done at U.S., Canadian and some foreign institutions. Can preview the first 24 pages of dissertations published since 1997. Free PDFs of all dissertations done since 1997 (OSU has a 1-year trial from March 2006 to Feb 2007).

• Linguist List: Dissertation Abstracts. Dissertations abstracts are submitted by dissertation authors, and can be accessed in multiple ways: by alphabetical listing of dissertation authors; by browsing dissertation abstracts categorized by linguistic subfield, subject language or language family; by searching a linguistic subfield; or via advanced search by selecting several search fields (Author, Year, Title, Institution, Linguistic Field, or Language Specialty).

• Journal Abstracts and Full-Text (Blackwell Synergy Search Engine) Online search of articles from 873 leading journals published by Blackwell, including those in social and behavioral sciences, of which a subgroup is "language and linguistics". Access to abstracts and full-text (PDF files) also if OSU Libraries subscribes to a given e-journal.

• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) Online, searchable database through OSU Libraries.

• RedLightGreen.com. (RedLightGreen.com delivers information from members of the Research Libraries Group (RLG) concerning more than 130 million books for education and research; and it links students back to their campus libraries for the books they select. Founded in 1974, RLG is a nonprofit membership corporation of universities, national libraries, archives, and other memory institutions with remarkable collections for research and learning.)

• Linguist List: 2006 Tables of Contents (TOC) (for some linguistic journals, and links to back issues as well)

• Indices/Tables of Content of some Chinese linguistics journals (subscribed by OSU Libraries):
  
  • Journal of Chinese Linguistics: Index of Articles (1973- ).
  • Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association: Authors and Topics Indices (1966- ).
  • Journal of East Asian Linguistics: Table of Contents of Published Issues (1992- ).
  • 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- ); (Main: PL1004 .Y84)
    
    Part of Wenze Hu and Hongyin Tao's Chinese Linguistics Page.

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

• Additional journal titles subscribed by OSU Libraries, originally provided by Guoqing Li, Chinese Studies Librarian (9/19/01 guest lecture in C680), with romanization converted from Wade-Giles to Pinyin, and Chinese characters added:
  
  • Zhongguo yu wen 中国语文 (Renmin Jiaoyu Chubanshe) PL1004 .C44 (bimonthly)
  • Zhongguo yu wen 中國語文 (Taipei, Taiwan) PL1004 .C5 (monthly)
  • Zhongguo yu wen tong xun 中國語文通訊. PL1004 .C57 (bimonthly)
  • Han zi wen hua 漢字文化. PL1281 .H365 (quarterly)
  • Hanyu Xuexi 汉语学习. PL1004 .H35 (bimonthly)
  • Yuwen Jiaoxue Tongxun 语文教学通讯. PL1004 .Y74 (monthly)
  • Yu wen jian she tong xun 語文建設通訊 (Hong Kong). PL1175 .A1 H35Y8 (quarterly)
  • Yuwen Xuexi 语文学习 (Renmin Jiaoyu Chubanshe). PL1004 .Y8 (monthly; 1954-1959,2004)
  • Yuwen Xuexi语文学习 (Shanghai Shifan Daxue) PL1004 Y824 (monthly)
  • Yuwenyuekan 语文月刊. PL1004 .Y8267

• MLA International Bibliography A database produced by Modern Language Association of America (MLA), it is available online for access to critical materials since 1963 on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore; proved access to citations from worldwide publications, including periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.

• MLA Directory of Periodicals Detailed information on more than 7,100 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, with 4,400 currently indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.

• Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks: ChinaLinks.osu.edu (Home Page 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), traditional Chinese culture, Chinese e-texts, etc.
  2. ChinaLinks2: Chinese Language Software & AV Programs
     Downloadable CJK fonts and decoders, IPA and Pinyin fonts, 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, links to website with Chinese Romanization Comparative Charts (for Hanyu Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Gwoyeu Romatzyh, Zhuyin Fuhao, Tongyong (adopted in July 2002 by the Taiwan government)), as well as links concerning Unicode and Chinee Character Sets and Internal Codes, 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 Word Lists and Online Glossaries/Dictionaries (links to online and downloadable Chinese word lists, frequency lists, dictionaries, etc.)

• 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 Online Bibliography for Chinese 580 (bibliography of English-language sources compiled in Spring 1999 for the undergraduate course, Chinese 580 (Chinese Language: Description and Analysis); updated periodically)

• Marjorie Chan's Modern Chinese Dialects Bibliography (bibliography of articles and references that were extracted from the Spring 2004 Chinese 785 course syllabus, and is updated from time to time)

• MC's Courses and Archived Course Syllabi
  (readings and references may provide a handy source to look for research topics or for supplementary reading.

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