The Semantics Of Chinese Classifiers And Linguistic Relativity
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Author | : Song Jiang |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1351967312 |
The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity focuses on the semantic structure of Chinese classifiers under the cognitive linguistics framework, and the implications thereof on linguistic relativity and language acquisition. It examines the semantic correlation between a given classifier and its associated nouns. Nouns in Chinese, which are assigned specific classifiers according to their selected characteristics, reflect the process of human categorization. The concrete categories formed by the relationship between nouns and classifiers may serve to explain the conceptual structure of the Chinese language and certain underlying aspects of culture and human cognition. Song Jiang is Assistant Professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at university of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Author | : Song Jiang (Chinese teacher) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Chinese language |
ISBN | : 9781138291331 |
The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity focuses on the semantic structure of Chinese classifiers under the cognitive linguistics framework, and the implications thereof on linguistic relativity and language acquisition. It examines the semantic correlation between a given classifier and its associated nouns. Nouns in Chinese, which are assigned specific classifiers according to their selected characteristics, reflect the process of human categorization. The concrete categories formed by the relationship between nouns and classifiers may serve to explain the conceptual structure of the Chinese language and certain underlying aspects of culture and human cognition. Song Jiang is Assistant Professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at university of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Author | : Song Jiang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Chinese language |
ISBN | : 9781109405514 |
In the pedagogical implications section, an argument is advanced favoring presentation of the conceptual structure of classifier categories in teaching Chinese as a second or foreign language. It is suggested that the introduction of a classifier in second language classrooms follow three steps: (a) reveal the central sense, the etymological meaning, of the classifier; (b) introduce each of the polysemic senses with a comprehensive list of nouns classified by the classifier; and (c) disclose the motivations behind the classifier category.
Author | : XuPing Li |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2013-08-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110289334 |
This book studies the syntax and semantics of numeral classifiers in Mandarin and other Chinese languages. It explores how Chinese classifiers are semantically interpreted in syntactic contexts and how semantic functions of classifiers are realized at the syntactic level. The book is a contribution to formal Chinese linguistics, and to the understanding of grammatical properties of nominal phrases in Chinese and East Asian languages.
Author | : Wei-lun Lu |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2021-08-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027258872 |
The studies in the present volume illustrate the current state-of-the-art in the corpus-based approach in cognitive linguistics, which seeks to motivate linguistic phenomena through the combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. By focusing on language use in different contexts from a variety of perspectives, each of the contributions in this volume presents its own unique take on the intertwined relationship between language, thought, and communication. Thus, each article shows how a combination of quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques helps shed new light on old issues, reflecting the usage-based nature of cognitive linguistics and illustrating the explanatory adequacy of corpus-based methods. Originally published as special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:1 (2019).
Author | : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
Publisher | : Explorations in Linguistic Typ |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2019-08-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198842015 |
This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Every language has some means of categorizing objects into humans, or animates, or by their shape, form, size, and function. The most widespread are linguistic genders - grammatical classes of nouns based on core semantic properties such as sex (female and male), animacy, humanness, and also shape and size. Classifiers of several types also serve to categorize entities. Numeral classifiers occur with number words, possessive classifiers appear in the expressions of possession, and verbal classifiers are used on a verb, categorizing its argument. These varied sorts of genders and classifiers can also occur together. This volume elaborates on the expression, usage, history, and meanings of noun categorization devices, exploring their various facets across the languages of South America and Asia, which are known for the diversity of their noun categorization. The volume begins with a typological introduction that outlines the types of noun categorization devices and their expression, scope, functions, and development, as well as sociocultural aspects of their use. The following nine chapters provide in-depth studies of genders and classifiers of different types in a range of South American and Asian languages and language families, including Arawak languages, Zamucoan, Hmong, and Japanese.
Author | : Jing Jin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2018-06-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317294963 |
Partition and Quantity: Numeral Classifiers, Measurement, and Partitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese presents an in-depth investigation into the semantic and syntactic properties of Chinese classifiers and conducts a comprehensive examination on the use of different quantity constructions in Chinese. This book echoes a rapid development in the past decades in Chinese linguistics research within the generative framework on Chinese classifier phrases, an area that has emerged as one of the most cutting-edge themes in the field of Chinese linguistics. The book on the one hand offers a closer scrutiny on empirical data and revisits some long-lasting research problems, such as the semantic factor bearing on the formation of Chinese numeral classifier constructions, the (non-)licensing of the linker de (的) in between the numeral classifier and the noun, and the conditions regulating the use of pre-classifier adjectives. On the other hand, particular attention is paid to the issues that have been less studied or gone unnoticed in previous studies, including a (more) fine-grained subcategorization of Chinese measurement constructions, the multiple grammatical roles played by the marker de (的) in different numeral classifier constructions, the formation and derivation of Chinese partitive constructions, etc.
Author | : Dan Xu |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2012-12-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110293986 |
Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar. The contributions in this book focus on the typological correlation between the three different strategies for quantification, as well as on some general issues. A better understanding of the quantification strategies in the languages of China will enrich our comprehension of human language and thought. The book is expected to have an impact on the study of linguistic typology, language contact, and patterns of the evolution.
Author | : Shu-Ling Wu |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2024-02-08 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1009186728 |
An introduction to the key cognitive linguistics concepts that aid analysis of Chinese and inform L2 Chinese teaching and learning.
Author | : Chu-Ren Huang |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1317362837 |
This monograph is a translation of two seminal works on corpus-based studies of Mandarin Chinese words and parts of speech. The original books were published as two pioneering technical reports by Chinese Knowledge and Information Processing group (CKIP) at Academia Sinica in 1993 and 1996, respectively. Since then, the standard and PoS tagset proposed in the CKIP report have become the de facto standard in Chinese corpora and computational linguistics, in particular in the context of traditional Chinese texts. This new translation represents and develops the principles and theories originating from these pioneering works. The results can be applied to numerous fields; Chinese syntax and semantics, lexicography, machine translation and other language engineering bound applications. Suitable for graduate and scholars in the fields of linguistics and Chinese, Mandarin Chinese Words and Parts of Speech provides a comprehensive survey of the issues around wordhood and PoS. Chapter 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and the appendixes V-VII of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com