International Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Volume 1, Issue 2 (2014)

2014.  iii, 167 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Articles
The adjective of quantity duo ‘many/much’ and differential comparatives in Mandarin Chinese
Jo-wang Lin
163–191
Left periphery and Chinese yes-no questions
Rui-heng Ray Huang
192–213
Preservation and deletion in Mandarin loanword adaptation
Tae-Eun Kim
214–243
The pragmatics of existential-presentative constructions in Chinese: A discourse-based study
Wendan Li
244–274
Humorous communication in social and political issues: A case study of a Celebrity Imitation Show
Hsiao-chu Liang and Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh
275–292
Diachronic extension of Linguistic Inventory Mightiness: Evolution of directional resultative-verb-compounds in Chinese
Wenlei Shi
293–324
Book review
Review of Beckett & Postiglione (2011): China’s Assimilationist Language Policy: The Impact on Indigenous/Minority Literacy and Social Harmony
Reviewed by Youyong Qian
325–329