WINTER QUARTER 2002 Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan Dept. of E. Asian Lang. & Lit. The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 U.S.A.

Reading selections will be placed in 208 Cunz Hall (and on Reserve in Main Library if needed).
Reference books will be placed on Reserve in Main Library as needed. Check OSU Libraries' Course Reserves (by Prof/TA or Course) for an online list of books placed on Reserve for Chinese 784. (Note: Reserved materials for a given course are listed online for the current quarter only. Also, search for OSU's web e-journal articles at OSU OSCAR Web E-Journals.)

Chinese 784 investigates the syntactic structure of modern (Mandarin) Chinese. Varieties of Mandarin and other Chinese dialects may also be included for comparative purposes.

This course serves as a further study of modern (Mandarin) Chinese syntax beyond the introductory level (Chinese 680, 681). The course aims to provide students with some functional and cognitive perspectives for further pedagogical and/or theoretical linguistic research.

The study of modern (Mandarin) Chinese grammar is approached from cognitive and functional perspectives, including semantic analyses and pragmatics-oriented approaches. The readings will explore issus concerning parts of speech, morphological processes, syntax-phonology interface, various constructions and other aspects of Chinese grammar at the sentence level as well as at the discourse level. The course will be conducted through lectures combined with class discussions of assigned readings and homework assignments.

Students are expected to:

1. Attend class regularly and participate actively in class discussions and other class activities, including presenting and reporting on homework assignments.
   . A mailing list for the class will also be used for dissemination of information and student-initiated discussions concerning topics brought up in class.

2. Submit five short homework assignments (about 2-3 pages, plus references and accompanying corpora and other data as needed).
   . Students who do not have their own web account may submit their assignments on diskette (or 100MB zip disk), or via email as attachment, for the instructor to upload for class-viewing.

Additional requirements for those registered for an extra 2 credits under Chinese 693:

1. Conduct research on a short term paper project and present an oral version in class in Week 10, and submit the written term paper in Week 11 during Examinatoin Week. The paper may be an extension of one of the homework assignments or some other topic relevant to Chinese grammar. The paper should be about 5 double-spaced pages, plus references, appendices and/or data files as needed. Obtain topic approval from the instructor no later than Week 8.

Class discussions/participation	50%
Homework assignments (5)	50%
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	100%

SCHEDULE

This class meets every Friday afternoon during the quarter.
Readings may be subject to change after the first week of classes.

WEEK 1

Introduction, Prosody and Syntax-Phonology Interface

January 11

Introduction and orientation, class mailing list, software and other research tools, etc. Background Reading: Fon & Johnson (2001) O. Lee (2000) C. Lee (2001) Janice Fon (Linguistics, OSU): Guest presentation - 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. "A cross-linguistic study on discourse and syntactic boundary cues in speech" Ok Joo Lee (DEALL, OSU): Presentation - 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. "Pragmatics, intonation, and ma-particle questions in Mandarin"

WEEK 2	Parts of Speech and Verb Classification
January 18	Readings: McCawley (1992) Tsao (1996)

WEEK 3	Gei and Ditransitive Constructions
January 25	Readings: C. Huang and Ahrens (1999) Due: Homework 1

WEEK 4	Generic Noun Phrases and Definite Articles
February 1	Readings: Gelman and Tardif (1998) S. Huang (1999) Due: Homework 2

WEEK 5	Time as Space: The Study of Metaphors
February 8	Readings: Yu (1998) Due: Homework 3

WEEK 6	Syntax and Iconicity
February 15	February 12: Happy Chinese New Year! (Year of the Horse) February 14: Happy Valentine's Day! Readings: Tai (1993) Kliffer (1996)

WEEK 7	Aspect and the Ba Construction
February 22	Readings: Liu (1997)

WEEK 8	Negation and the Focus Marker Bushi
March 1	Readings: Yeh (1995) Due: Homework 4

WEEK 9	Interrogatives and the A-not-A Question Form
March 8	Readings: Dai (1990) Zhang (1997) Due: Homework 5

WEEK 10	Syntactic Patterns and Spoken vs. Written Narrative Discourse
March 15	Readings: Christensen (1994) Student presentations

WEEK 11

Examination Week

March 18

Turn in Term Paper (for those registered for Chinese 693). Due: Monday, 18 March 2001, 5:00 p.m. (Request for extension must be made before the end of Week 10.) Wed., 20 March 2002 -- Presentation by Marjorie Chan: "Cantonese Syllable Onsets and the Aomen Jilue's (Records of Macao) Mid-18th Century Sino-Portuguese Glossary." . Presentation organized by the Language Relatedness Group. . 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. . 240 Central Classroom Building.

READINGS

Readings may be subject to change after the course begins. Library call numbers are included for sources for which I happen to have the call numbers handy. An asterisk (*) marks web e-journal articles available at OSU OSCAR Web E-Journals (OSU users only).

1. Christensen, Matthew Bruce. 1994. Variation in Spoken and Written Mandarin Narrative Discourse. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University. (Excerpt: Chapter 3, "Variation in oral and written Mandarin narrative discourse.")

2. Dai, John Xiang-ling. 1990. "Some issues on A-not-A questions." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 18.2:285-317.

3. * Fon, Janice and Keith Johnson. 2001. "A cross-linguistic study on discourse and syntactic boundary cues in speech." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 109.5: 2475-2475. (Abstract)
   (Also see: Fon, Janice and Keith Johnson, 2000. "Speech timing patterning as an indicator of discourse and syntactic boundaries." Proceeding of 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing 2: 555-558. Beijing, China.)

4. * Gelman, Susan A. and Twila Tardif. 1998. "A cross-linguistic comparison of generic noun phrases in English and Mandarin." Cognition 66:215-248.

5. Huang, Chu-Ren and Kathleen Ahrens. 1999. "The function and category of gei in Mandarin ditransitive constructions." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 27.2:1-26.

6. * Huang, Shuanfan. 1999. "The emergence of a grammatical category definite article." Journal of Pragmatics 31:77-94.

7. * Kliffer, Michael D. 1996. "Commonalities of French and Mandarin Inalienable Possession." Language Sciences 18.1-2:53-69.

8. * Lee, Chao-yang. 2001. "Prosody in spontaneous and read speech: some preliminary findings from a tone language." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 109.5: 2415-2415. (Abstract)

9. Lee, Ok Joo. 2000. The Pragmatics and Intonation of Ma-Particle Questions in Mandarin. M.A. thesis, Ohio State University. (Background reading)

10. * Liu, Feng-hsi. 1997. "An aspectual analysis of ba." Journal of East Asian Linguistics 6:51-99.

11. McCawley, James D. 1992. "Justifying part-of-speech assignments in Mandarin Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 20.2:211-246.

12. 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.

13. Tsao, Feng-fu. 1996. "On verb classification in Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 24.1:138-191.

14. Yeh, Ling-hsia. 1995. "Focus, metalinguistic negation and contrastive negation." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 23.2:42-75.

15. Yu, Ning. 1998. The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: A Perspective from Chinese. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. (Excerpt: Chapter 4: "The time as space metaphor." Page 83-139.)

16. Zhang, Zheng-sheng. 1997. "Focus, presupposition and the formation of A-not-A questions in Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 25.2:227-257.

SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS

An asterisk (*) marks web e-journal articles available at OSU OSCAR Web E-Journals (OSU users only).

1. 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 with color screenshots (1.03 MB)]

2. Chan, Marjorie K.M. and James H-Y. Tai. 1995. "From nouns to verbs: verbalization in Chinese dialects and East Asian languages." (with James Tai) In: Sixth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. NACCL6. Two volumes, edited by Jose Camacho and Lina Choueiri. Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Volume 2, pp. 49-74. [ See PDF file (210 KB) ]

3. * Chen, Rong. 1995. "Communicative dynamism and word order in Mandarin Chinese." Language Sciences 17.2:201-222.

4. * Chen, Yiye, and Agnes Weiyun He. 2001. "Dui bu dui as a pragmatic marker: Evidence from Chinese classroom discourse." Journal of Pragmatics 33:1441-1465.

5. Chiang, Mien-Hwa. 1992. A Study of Anaphora in Chinese Recipe Discourse. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

6. Christensen, Matthew Bruce. 1994. Variation in Spoken and Written Mandarin Narrative Discourse. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

7. Christensen, Matthew Bruce. 2000. "Anaphoric reference in spoken and written Chinese narrative discourse." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 28.2:303-336.

8. * Clancy, Patrica M., Sandra A. Thompson, Ryoko Suzuki, and Hongyin Tao. 1996. "The conversational use of reactive tokens in English, Japanese, and Mandarin." Journal of Pragmatics 26:355-387.

9. * Guo, Jiansheng. 1999. "From information to emotion: The affective function of right-dislocation in Mandarin Chinese." Journal of Pragmatics 31:1103-1128.

10. He, Baozhang. Situation Types and Aspectual Classes of Verbs in Mandarin Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

11. Her, One-Soon. 1990. Grammatical Functions and Verb Subcategorization in Mandarin Chinese. Taipei: The Crane Publishing Co., Ltd.

12. Hu, Wenze. 1989. The Inverted Sentence in the Beijing Dialect. M.A. thesis, Ohio State University.

13. Hu, Wenze. 1995. Functional Perspectives and Chinese Word Order. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

14. King, Brian. 1989. The Conceptual Structure of Emotional Experience in Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

15. * Klein, Wolfgang, Ping Li, and Henriette Hendriks. 2000. "Aspect and assertion in Mandarin Chinese." Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 18:723-770.

16. * Liu, Chen-sheng Luther. 2001. "Antilogophoricity, sympathy and the sympathetic antilogophor renjia." Journal of East Asian Linguistics 10:307-336.

17. McGinnis, Scott Gary. 1990. A Pragmatic Analysis of Mandarin Interrogatives: Data from Modern Taiwan Drama. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

18. Miracle, William Charles. 1991. Discourse Markers in Mandarin Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

19. * Pollard, Carl and Ping Xue. 1998. "Chinese reflexive ziji: syntactic reflexives vs. nonsyntactic reflexives." Journal of East Asian Linguistics 7:287-318.

20. Tai, James and Wenze Hu. 1991. "Functional Motivations for the So-Called 'Inverted Sentences' in Beijing Conversational Discourse." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 26.3:75-104.

21. Rouzer, John Harvey. 1997. Ontological Metaphor in Chinese Syntax. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

22. Wu, Xiaoqi. 1996. 'Zai', 'Dao', and 'Gei' Constructions -- A Study of Chinese Word Order. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

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

24. Zhou, Lieting. 1994. Locative Implications of Chinese Nouns and Occurrence Conditions of Localizers. M.A. thesis, Ohio State University.

SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES

1. Reference Books: some classic Chinese-language grammar texts (GIF file).

2. Auroux, Sylvain, E.F.K. Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe, and Kees Versteegh (editors). 2000. History of the Language Sciences: An International Handbook on the Evolution of the Study of Language from the Beginnings to the Present. (3 volumes.) Volume 1. Berlin: De Gruyter. [WEL Reading Room. P140 .H583 2000 Volume 1 -- Use in library]

3. Chao, Yuen Ren. 1968. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Berkeley: University of California Press.

4. Chu, Chauncey C. 1998. A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

5. Culicover, Peter W. and Louise McNally (eds.). 1998. The Limits of Syntax. Syntax and Semantics. Volume 29. San Diego: Academic Press.
   (The collection includes articles on focus (e.g., Enri Valluve and Maria Vilkuna ("On rheme and kontrast"), Craige Roberts ("Focus, the flow of information, and Universal Grammar"), Michael S. Rochemont ("Phonological focus and structural focus"), etc.

6. Dowty, David R. 1979. Word Meaning and Montague Grammar: The Semantics of Verbs and Times in Generative Semantics and in Montague's PTQ. Dordrecht, Boston, and London: D. Reidel Publishing Company.

7. Fischer, Olga and Max Nänny (editors). 2001. The Motivated Sign: Iconicity in Language and Literature 2. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co. [Also see Nänny and Fischer 1999.]

8. Goossens, Louis et al. 1995. By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, Metonymy and Linguistic Action in a Cognitive Perspective. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co.

9. Hirschberg, Stuart and Terry Hirschberg (editors). 1999. Reflections on Language. New York: Oxford University Press.

10. Janssen, Theo and Gisela Redeker (editors). 1999. Cognitive Linguistics, Foundations, Scope, and Methodology. Berlin and Hawthorne, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter.

11. Johnson, Mark (editor). 1981. Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
    (The collection of important philosophical treatises on metaphor includes Mark Johnson's "Introduction: Metaphor in the philosophical tradition" (from Greek philosophers to the present) and George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's article, "Conceptual metaphor in everyday language," as well as a "Selected Annotated Bibliography of Key Sources" at the end of the book.)

12. Kaisse, Ellen M. 1985. Connected Speech: The Interaction of Syntax and Phonology. Orlando: Academic Press.

13. Kratochvil, Paul. 1968. The Chinese Language Today. London: Hutchinson University Library.

14. Lakoff, George. 1987. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

15. Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

16. Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. 1999. Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books.

17. Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1981. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar. Berkeley: University of California Press.

18. Lyons, John. 1977. Semantics. Two volumes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

19. Margolis, Eric and Stephen Laurence (editors). 1999. Concepts: Core Readings. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

20. Nänny, Max and Olga Fischer (editors). 1999. Form Miming Meaning: Iconicity in Language and Literature. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co. [Also see Fischer and Nänny 2001.]

21. Newmeyer, Frederick J. (editor). 1988. Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey. (Four volumes.) Volume 1. Linguistic Theory: Foundations. Volume 2. Linguistic Theory: Extensions and Implications. Volume 3. Language: Psychological and Biological Aspects. Volume 4. Language: The Socio-cultural Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

22. Norman, Jerry. 1988. Chinese. Cambridge University Press.

23. Overton, Willis F. and David S. Palermo (editors). 1994. The Nature and Ontogenesis of Meaning. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates.

24. Palmer, Gary B. 1996. Toward a Theory of Cultural Linguistics. Austin: University of Texas Press.

25. Pütz, Martin and René Dirven. 1996. The Construal of Space in Language and Thought. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

26. Sells, Peter. 1983. Lectures on Contemporary Syntactic Theories: An Introduction to Government-Binding Theory, Generalied Phrase Structure Grammar, and Lexical-Functional Grammar. Stanford University: Center for the Study of Language and Information.

27. Steinberg, Danny D. and Leon A. Jakobovits (eds.). 1971. Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics, and Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press.
    (The collection includes articles by Noam Chomsky ("Deep structure, surface structure, and semantic interpretation," George Lakoff ("On generative semantics," "Presupposition and relative well-formedness"), Jerrold J. Katz ("Semantic theory"), etc.

28. Taylor, John R. 1995. Linguistic Categorization: Prototypes in Linguistic Theory. Second edition. London: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press.

29. Taylor, John R. and Robert E. MacLaury (editors). 1995. Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

30. Ungerer, Friedrich and Hans-Jörg Schmid. 1996. An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. London and New York: Longman.

LINKS AND WWW RESOURCES

• OSU Libraries' On-Line Catalog (OSCAR) and other Library Catalogs, etc.

• 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)

• OSU Libraries also subscribe 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' Research Tools: Electronic Journals.
    If you have a specific e-journal or article in mind, go directly to OSU OSCAR Web E-Journals.

    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.)
  • IDEAL: International Digital Electronic Access Library (OSU subscriptions include: Brain and Cognition, Brain and Language, Computer Speech & Language, Journal of Memory and Language, and Journal of Phonetics.)
  • ISTOR (Depository of back issues of journals, including e-journals for Asian studies, such as Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (Vol. 1-55, 1936-1995 currently, with a "moving wall" of 5 years) and Journal of Asian Studies (Vol. 16-54, 1956-1995; and Vol. 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.)

• MLA International Bibliography (part of OhioLINK's online Research Databases)

• 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)

• Linguistic Abstracts Online. Searchable online database from Blackwell Publishers, edited by Terry Langendoen, U. of Arizona. Also see Blackwell's List of Journals.

• Linguist List: 2002 Tables of Contents (TOC). For some linguistic journals, and links to back issues as well; part of The LINGUIST List website of links to linguistic resources.

• Lexicon of Linguistics. Searchable lexicon of linguistic terms, edited by Jan Don, Johan Kerstens, and Eddy Ruys at Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University.

• Functional Syntax: Linguistics 595. Scott DeLancey's online course syllabus and functional syntax lectures (including bibliography) that were prepared for the 2001 LSA Summer Institute, UC Santa Barbara.

• Conceptual Metaphor Home Page. The server, maintained at U.C. Berkeley by George Lakoff, is a research tool for cognitive scientists and others interested in the study of conceptual metaphor systems.

• Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online. Links and other resources maintained by Tim Rohrer, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, including an Annotated Bibliography of Metaphor and Cognitive Science.

• Linguistic Iconism Association
  • "Dissertations and MA Theses in Linguistic Iconism", links, etc.
  • See also: Olga Fischer and Max Nanny's Iconicity in Language: Bibiography (part of their website on Iconicity in Language and Literature), and Margaret Magnus' Bibliography of Phonosemantics.

• Some Chinese linguistics journals - Indices:
  
  • 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- )
    . Part of Wenze Hu and Hongyin Tao's Chinese Linguistics Page.
  • Zhongguo Yuwen: Table of Contents Index (GB for now, Eng. under construction) (1995- ).

• Beijing University's Department of Chinese Language and Literature. Online classical corpora and other useful resources.

• Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks (Homepage with Table of Contents to 4 satellite pages and their contents)

• MC's Chinese Language and Gender On-Line Bibliography
  Some web-accessible articles, online collections of gender-related course syllabi, etc.

  MC's Courses and Sample Syllabi

  Contains readings and references that may provide an additional source for references.

  Included there is my Chinese corpus linguistics seminar: Chinese 889: Databases and Corpora for Chinese Linguistic Research (Wi 2001).

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