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zedat.fu-berlin.de>Jerome L. Packard (Editor) NEW APPROACHES TO CHINESE WORD FORMATION Morphology, Phonology and the Lexicon in Modern and Ancient Chinese 1997. XIV, 386 pages. Cloth DM 278,-/approx. US$ 174.00 ISBN 3-11-015109-X Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 105 Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York This volume examines the composition of multisyllabic words in Chinese, revealing a wealth of word formation complexity in a language too often characterized as morphologically impoverished. The collection of articles is broad both in theoretical approach and chronology, ranging in topic from the origin and development of bisyllabic words in Ancient Chinese to the argument structure and theta-assignment principles in Modern Mandarin compounds. The wide range of word formation phenomena in Chinese is demonstrated with examples from dialects as diverse as Mandarin, Shanghai, Hakka and Taiwanese, as the reader is offered a panoply of new ideas on Chinese words and their structure. The book presents novel insights into the formation of complex words in both the ancient and modern language, offering contemporary linguistic analyses of word structure unfettered by the myth that wordhood in Chinese is somehow equated with the written Chinese character. This work demonstrates the breadth of current scholarship in the study of Chinese morphology and is certain to pose a challenge to traditional conceptions of word structure in Chinese linguistics. It contains a foreword by Sandra Thompson. Contents Sandra A. Thompson, Foreword * Jerome L. Packard, Preface * Jerome L. Packard, Introduction * William H. Baxter and Laurent Sagart, Word formation in Old Chinese * Claire Hsun-huei Chang, V-V Compounds in Mandarin Chinese: Argument structure and semantics * John X-L. Dai, Syntactic, phonological, and morphological words in Chinese * San Duanmu, Wordhood in Chinese * Shengli Feng, Prosodic structure and compound words in Classical Chinese * Shuanfan Huang, Chinese as a headless language in compounding morphology * Yafei Li, Chinese resultative constructions and the Uniformity of Theta Assignment Hypothesis * Jerome L. Packard, A Lexical Phonology of Mandarin Chinese * Claudia Ross, Cognate objects and the realization of thematic structure in Mandarin Chinese * Stanley Starosta, Koenraad Kuiper, Zhi-qian Wu and Siew-ai Ng, On defining the Chinese compound word: Headedness in Chinese compounding and Chinese VR compounds _______________________________________________________________________ Mouton de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter, Inc. Postfach 30 34 21 200 Saw Mill River Road D-10728 Berlin Hawthorne, NY 10532 Germany USA Fax: +49 (0)30 26005-351 Fax: +1 914 747-1326 email: moutonMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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