Smithfield, Rhode Island: Bryant University, 2009. — iii; pp. 209 - 600.The 21st North American conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-21) was held at Bryant University on June 6-8, 2009. A total of 135 proposals were submitted to the conference organizing committee. Out of them seventy were selected for presentation at the conference, which covered a full range of issues in Chinese linguistics and applied linguistics and represented scholars from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, North America, and UK.Semantics and syntax: a functional approach
Liang Tao. Serial verb construction in Mandarin Chinese: the interface of syntax and semantics
Tao Ming. Grammatical roles of the head noun in Chinese relative clauses
Hui Cao. Discourse-oriented distributivity in Mandarin Chinese
Xiao-Qin Deng 邓小琴.香港粤语入文变异研究1: 以香港报刊杂志语言使用为例
Chin-Man Kuo. The meaning of S-topics in Mandarin: a crosslinguistic comparison
Pei-Jung Kuo. Possessor raising and BA construction
Zanhui Huang and Yan Jiang. The function of měi in měi-NPs
Ni Eng Lim. Stance-taking with Wo jue de in conversational Chinese
Wan-Hua Lin. Preferred argument structure in Chinese: a comparison among conversations, narratives and written texts
Binmei Liu. Chinese discourse markers in oral speech of mainland Mandarin speakers
Tom McClive. Romanization patterns in Chinese as evidenced by a personal name corpus
Fei Ren. Aspect and modality of yinggai
Juan Wang. A corpus-based study on the Chinese near-synonymous verbs of running
Hui Zhang 张慧. 现代汉语非宾格结构的内部句法差异
Studies in generative grammar
Y.-H. Audrey Li and Shi-Zhe Huang. Looking into clauses
Hsiang-Yun Chen. Logophoricity and ziji
Hsu-Te Johnny Cheng. Right node raising: some perspectives from Mandarin Chinese
I-Ta Chris Hsieh. Even-focus and VP-fronting in Mandarin Chinese
Rui-heng Ray Huang. Resolving a subject-object asymmetry with respect to existential polarity Wh-phrases
Xiao-You Kevin Huang. Multiple-modal constructions in Mandarin Chinese: a cartographic approach and an MP perspective
Chao Li. Argument realization: particularities and universals
Grant Xiaoguang Li. Distributivity in ellipsis in Chinese
Kening Li. An OT analysis of informational focus in Mandarin Chinese
Lyn Shan Tieu. Standard vs. sideward movement in verb copying
