{"title":"A comparative with two standards of comparison","authors":"C. Liu","doi":"10.1075/IJCHL.17003.LIU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJCHL.17003.LIU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article discusses the syntax and semantics of the DS comparative in Chinese, which is an adjectival comparative in which the\u0000 sequence gèng duō ‘even-more much’ occurs as the degree búyǔ complement clause of the matrix\u0000 adjective. The element duō ‘much’ is a quantity-adjective that interacts with gèng ‘even-more’\u0000 to introduce an additional standard of comparison into the DS comparative in order to make the comparison denoted by the degree\u0000 búyǔ complement clause possible.","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42654526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aneta Pavlenko. 2014. The bilingual mind and what it tells us about language and thought","authors":"Haizhen Wang","doi":"10.1075/IJCHL.00004.WAN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJCHL.00004.WAN","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews The bilingual mind and what it tells us about language and thought 9780521716567","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46509420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Istvan Kecskes (ed.). 2017. Explorations into Chinese as a second language","authors":"Hai Liu","doi":"10.1075/IJCHL.00003.LIU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJCHL.00003.LIU","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews Explorations into Chinese as a second language by Istvan Kecskes 9783319540269","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48722465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The language of Chinese Buddhism","authors":"Qingzhi Zhu, Bohan Li","doi":"10.1075/IJCHL.17010.ZHU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJCHL.17010.ZHU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This is a more detailed introduction of the language of Chinese Buddhism based on our latest research of Buddhist Chinese, which is a modern Chinese historical linguistic category applied to a form of written Chinese originated for and used in Buddhist texts, including the translations into Chinese of Indian Buddhist scriptures and all Chinese works of Buddhism composed by Chinese monks and lay Buddhists in the past. We attempt to answer in this paper the following questions: What is Buddhist Chinese? What is the main difference between Buddhist Chinese and non-Buddhist Chinese? What role did this language play in the history of Chinese language development? And what is the value of this language for the Chinese Historical Linguistics?","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44770857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bare numeral phrases in Mandarin and the Minimalist Mapping Hypothesis","authors":"W. Liao","doi":"10.1075/IJCHL.17002.WEN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJCHL.17002.WEN","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We pursue an agreement-based analysis of the bare numeral phrases in Chinese. Bare numeral phrases in Chinese often occur with the\u0000 you marker in the preverbal position. With the marker, a bare numeral phrase obtains an individual-denoting\u0000 reading, which has an existential meaning. In contrast, several syntactic environments do not need the you\u0000 marker, and the bare numeral phrase obtains the quantity-denoting reading. In addition to the existential you\u0000 marker, we observe that the distributions of the two readings are correlated to the lower (root) modals (Mod) and the middle\u0000 aspects (Asp). We argue that the correlation can be analyzed through syntactic feature agreement. That is, the bare numeral phrase\u0000 carries an unvalued quantificational feature in the null D, and its unvalued feature is valued by the corresponding existential\u0000 you marker, Asp, and/or Mod heads through (multiple) agreement. We argue that the proposed feature agreement\u0000 mechanism can improve upon the (Extended) Mapping Hypothesis (Diesing 1992; Tsai 1999, 2001) under the Minimalist\u0000 Program.","PeriodicalId":41020,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41391609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}