Stephen Matthews

List of John Benjamins publications for which Stephen Matthews plays a role.

Journal

Title

Deconstructing Creole

Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim

[Typological Studies in Language, 73] 2007. xii, 292 pp.
Subjects Creole studies | Typology

Articles

Lee, Jonathan Him Nok, Regine Yee King Lai, Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip 2023 Prosodic interaction in Cantonese-English bilingual children’s speech productionLinguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article
This corpus-based study investigates intonation patterns in the production of Cantonese by Cantonese-English bilingual children. We examine the intonation patterns in eight simultaneous bilingual children acquiring a tonal (Cantonese) and an intonational language (English) from 2;0 to 3;0. Two… read more
Yip, Virginia, Ziyin Mai and Stephen Matthews 2018 Chapter 9. CHILDES for bilingualismBilingual Cognition and Language: The state of the science across its subfields, Miller, David, Fatih Bayram, Jason Rothman and Ludovica Serratrice (eds.), pp. 183–202 | Chapter
The CHILDES archive has revolutionized the study of bilingual development. We review the available corpora and their properties, some methods that have been used in creating and analyzing corpus data, and the kinds of analyses that it has made possible. These points are illustrated with corpus data… read more
Matthews, Stephen and Virginia Yip 2017 Noun-modifying clauses in CantoneseNoun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells (eds.), pp. 105–120 | Article
Whether relative clauses can be identified in Chinese is a recurrent question. We ask whether relative clauses are distinct from other noun-modifying clause constructions in Cantonese, one of many East Asian languages in which a noun can be preceded by a diverse range of modifying clauses. The… read more
The role of cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children’s development remains a matter of debate. Some researchers have proposed that simultaneous bilingual learners develop the linguistic systems of two languages in the same way as matched monolingual children do. Other researchers have… read more
Li, Michelle and Stephen Matthews 2016 An outline of Macau Pidgin PortugueseJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31:1, pp. 141–183 | Article
In the early stages of the China trade European traders knew nothing of Chinese, while the Chinese traders were equally ignorant of European languages. It was in this setting that pidgin languages developed for interethnic communication. While the role of Chinese Pidgin English in the China trade… read more
Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Geoff Smith 2012 China Coast Pidgin: Texts and contextsPidgins and Creoles in Asia, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 59–90 | Article
In this paper we revisit some long-standing questions regarding the origins and structure of China Coast Pidgin (CCP), also known as Chinese Pidgin English. We first review the historical context of the China Trade which formed the ecology for the development of CCP. We then review the available… read more
Matthews, Stephen and Michelle Li 2012 Portuguese pidgin and Chinese Pidgin English in the Canton tradeIbero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives, Cardoso, Hugo C., Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda-Nunes (eds.), pp. 263–288 | Article
While the role of Chinese Pidgin English (CPE) in the Canton trade is relatively well-understood, the role of pidgin Portuguese has remained less clear. We review the evidence for the use of pidgin Portuguese and for its influence on the development of CPE. There is evidence of gradual replacement… read more
Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Geoff P. Smith 2011 The Cantonese substrate in China Coast PidginCreoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 289–301 | Article
The “Chinese” character of Chinese Pidgin English, or China Coast Pidgin (CCP) has been debated in previous work. While some Chinese-based features such as the use of piece(e) as a classifier are widely acknowledged, the extent of substrate influence has remained unclear. This paper surveys the… read more
Chan, Angel, Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip 2011 Chapter 8. The acquisition of relative clauses in Cantonese and MandarinThe Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, typology and function, Kidd, Evan (ed.), pp. 197–226 | Article
We discuss three typological characteristics relevant to the acquisition of relative clauses (RCs) in Cantonese and Mandarin: (i) the prenominal position of RCs; (ii) the availability of an internally-headed analysis for Cantonese object RCs; and (iii) Chinese RCs as a subset of noun modifying… read more
Matthews, Stephen and Virginia Yip 2011 Contact-induced grammaticalization: Evidence from bilingual acquisitionLanguage Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 107–135 | Article
It is widely acknowledged that developments in bilingual individuals parallel, and ultimately underlie, those taking place in the course of contact-induced change. In this paper we address the poorly understood relationship between the individual and community-level processes, focusing on the… read more
Xu, Hui Ling and Stephen Matthews 2011 On the polyfunctionality and grammaticalization of the morpheme kai in the Chaozhou dialectNominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona (eds.), pp. 109–124 | Article
The morpheme kai is among the most frequent and polyfunctional in Chaozhou, a Min dialect of Chinese. The present paper aims to present a descriptive and analytical account of the various functions of kai from Chaozhou in order to shed more light on nominalization and the diachronic development of… read more
Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Geoff Smith 2010 China Coast Pidgin: Texts and contextsPidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 63–94 | Article
In this paper we revisit some long-standing questions regarding the origins and structure of China Coast Pidgin (CCP), also known as Chinese Pidgin English. We first review the historical context of the China Trade which formed the ecology for the development of CCP. We then review the available… read more
Matthews, Stephen and Virginia Yip 2009 Contact-induced grammaticalization: Evidence from bilingual acquisitionLanguage Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 366–395 | Article
It is widely acknowledged that developments in bilingual individuals parallel, and ultimately underlie, those taking place in the course of contact-induced change. In this paper we address the poorly understood relationship between the individual and community-level processes, focusing on the… read more
Yap, Foong Ha and Stephen Matthews 2008 The development of nominalizers in East Asian and Tibeto-Burman languagesRethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives, López-Couso, María José and Elena Seoane (eds.), pp. 309–341 | Article
This paper presents evidence of recurring patterns as well as of language-specific variations in the development of nominalizers across several East Asian and Tibeto-Burman languages. Special attention is pa to the different grammaticalization pathways of nominalizer morphemes and to the links… read more
Ansaldo, Umberto and Stephen Matthews 2007 Deconstructing creole: The rationaleDeconstructing Creole, Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
Ansaldo, Umberto and Stephen Matthews 2004 1. The origins of Macanese reduplicationCreoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications, Escure, Geneviève and Armin Schwegler (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Chapter
Yap, Foong Ha, Stephen Matthews and Kaoru Horie 2004 From pronominalizer to pragmatic marker: Implications for unidirectionality from a crosslinguistic perspectiveUp and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization, Fischer, Olga, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 137–168 | Article
Matthews, Stephen 1999 Y.R. Chao and Universal Chinese GrammarHistory of Linguistics 1996: Volume 1: Traditions in Linguistics Worldwide, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 217 ff. | Chapter
Yip, Virginia and Stephen Matthews 1995 I-interlanguage and typology: The case of topic-prominenceThe Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford, Eubank, Lynn, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith (eds.), pp. 17 ff. | Article
Matthews, Stephen 1993 Creole Aspect and Morphological TypologyAtlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization, Byrne, Francis and John Holm † (eds.), pp. 233 ff. | Article
Comrie, Bernard and Stephen Matthews 1990 Prolegomena to a typology of Tough MovementStudies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday, Croft, William A., Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning (eds.), pp. 43 ff. | Article