Mary S. Erbaugh

List of John Benjamins publications for which Mary S. Erbaugh plays a role.

Journal

Chinese Language and Discourse (CLD)

Edited by Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, K.K. Luke, Hongyin Tao and Li Wei

ISSN 1877-7031 | E-ISSN 1877-8798

Articles (4) | Order by:

Erbaugh, Mary S. 2019 How the Chinese language encourages the paradigm shift toward discourse in linguistics: Pressure from ‘the three zeros’ Chinese Language and Discourse 10:1, pp. 84–112 | Article

The Chinese language has encouraged the paradigm shift in linguistics away from Chomsky-style sentence-internal rules toward usage-based discourse. Analysts have debated two possibilities: is Chinese an allegedly ‘inferior’ and ambiguous language because it rests on the ‘three zeros’: zero… read more

Erbaugh, Mary S. 2013 Classifier choices in discourse across the seven main Chinese dialects Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.), pp. 101–126 | Article

Discourse activates classifiers. No classifier, either general or sortal (e.g. CLF:elongated 條 tiao), appears with 44% of Mandarin nouns in descriptions of Chafe’s Pear Stories film (Shanghai Wu 44%, Cantonese 37%). Classifiers only appear for highlighting. General classifiers dominate (53%… read more

Erbaugh, Mary S. 1987 Psycholinguistic evidence for foregrounding and backgrounding Coherence and Grounding in Discourse: Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984, Tomlin, Russell S., pp. 109–130 | Article

Erbaugh, Mary S. 1986 Taking Stock: The Development of Chinese Noun Classifiers Historically and in Young Children Noun Classes and Categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983, Craig, Colette G. (ed.), pp. 399–436 | Article