Eugene: University of Oregon, 2011. — vi; 295 p.The 23rd North American Conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-23) was organized and
hosted by the University of Oregon on June 17-19, 2011.Semantics and pragmatics
I-Hsuan Chen. The semantic constraints on the VERB + zhĕ nouns in Mandarin Chinese
Noah Constant. On the independence of the Mandarin aspectual and contrastive sentence-final ne
Chao Li. Postverbal constituents in Mandarin Chinese
Yi-Hsien Liu. Topic-comment and the Chinese existential construction
Lyih-Peir Luo. An aspectual approach to the postverbal locative zai-phrase
Tianqi Yang. Non-literal use of "jade": a study on "玉" (yu) in Chinese idioms
Sociolinguistics and socio-pragmatics
Litong Chen. The imposition of Cantonese on Mandarin in the city of Guangzhou
Si Chen and Caroline Wiltshire. Differences of tone representation between younger and older speakers of Nanjing dialect
Meihsing Kuo. Children in arguments with peers: young children’s strategies as opposer and opposee
Woan-Tyng Lee. Ideology in address forms — a case study of two political talk shows in Taiwan
Studies on regional varieties of Chinese
Yuchau Hsiao. Cross-anchoring of tones in Hoiliuk triplication
Yenchun Lin. Superlatives in Taiwanese
Xinyuan Shi. Neutralization of T3 and T5 sandhi in Suzhou Chinese
Yutian Tan. The origin and nature of high rising diminutive tone change in Siyi dialect
Hui-ling Yang. Is Chinese a negative concord language?
Syntax
Hsu-Te Cheng. Argument ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese
Chen-chun E. The YUE-construction in Mandarin Chinese
Qian Gao. Passives and anti-passives in Chinese: a pedagogical consideration
Qiaona Yu. Rule conspiracy in Chinese time expressions
Translation study on Buddhist Sutras
Shu-Fen Chen and Bernard Montoneri. A study of some punctuation errors found in the Taisho and CBETA Diamond Sutra based on Sanskrit-Chinese comparative studies
