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The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)
The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics - Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics Author:C. T. James Huang, Y. H. Audrey Li, Andrew Simpson The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics presents critical overviews of a wide range of major topics in Chinese linguistics, and is the first book to introduce Chinese linguistics from the perspective of modern theoretical and formal linguistics.Offers readers a balanced and accessible introduction to some of the most important results of research in... more »to Chinese linguistics carried out by theoretical linguists during the last thirty yearsTopics covered include, among others, syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, language acquisition, historical linguistics, and psycholinguistics, with each chapter outlining and assessing the major achievements and controversies of research undertaken in that subjectContributors present their own research in their field of expertise, along with competitor theories and analysesEdited by a team of leading figures in the field, all with vast research experience in this area« less