This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings
of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal …

b ls Berkeley Linguistics Society Page 1 b ls Berkeley Linguistics Society An Integrational
Approach to Possessor Raising, Ethical Datives, and Adversative Passives Author(s) …

Whether classifiers (C) and measure words (M) can be meaningfully distinguished in
Chinese has been a controversial issue, reflected also by the drastic discrepancy in the …

This analysis includes a description of language-contact phenomena such as stratification,
hybridization, and convergence for Sinitic languages. It also presents typologically unusual …

With Chinese native‐speaker data as the baseline, this study investigates the use of the
morphosyntactic particle DE by learners of Chinese as a second language. The general …

When accounting for the usage of some linguistic form, one can refer to its discourse profile,
all concomitant features frequently co-occurring with that form in discourse, or abstract a …

The study of Chinese grammar from a 'functional'point of view reflects the general functional,
cognitive, and discourse tradition in current linguistics (see Chafe 1992; Hopper, 1992; …

1. Background The term'language universal'is generally understood by most practitioners
somewhat broadly; that is, it is taken to refer to a pattern which recurs in large numbers of …

Localizers (fangwèicí 方位词) express the relative position of objects. Either monosyllabic or
dissyllabic in form, they belong to a closed sub-class. The monosyllabic set comprises the …

This research originates from the observation of the striking behaviour of Chinese1
compounding, which seems to form both right-headed and left-headed compounds (cf …