The Morphology of Chinese:A Linguistic and Cognitive Approach

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list of figures

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list of abbreviations

preface by halliday

王宗炎序

preface by chomsky

沈家煊序

导读

1 introduction

1.1 rationale:why investigate chinese words?

1.2 the scope of this work

2 defining the word in chinese ?

2.1 what is a 'word'?: different views
2.2 the ghinese concept of'word'

2.3 how we will define 'word' in chinese

3 chinese word components
3.1 describing the components
3.2 form classes of the components

3.3 criteria for determining form class of chinese word

. components

3.4 morphological analysis of chinese word components

3.5 the nature of the components

4 gestalt chinese words

4.1 word types

4.2 nouns

4.3 verbs

4.4 nouns and verbs by component form class: statistical

tendencies

4.5 chinese words: special properties

5 x-bar analysis of chinese words

5.1 basic x-bar properties

5.2 x-bar properties applied to words

5.3 x-bar morphology: previous proposals

5.4 an alternative proposal for chinese x-bar morphology

5.5 the concept of 'head' applied to chinese words

6 lexicalization and chinese words
6.1 lexicalization and the relation between word and

constituent
6.2 lexicalitation and the availability of word-internal

information

6.3 lexicalization and grmmnaticalization

6.4 lexicalization and the formation ofnewwords

7 chinese words and the lexicon

7.1 what is'the lexicon'?

7.2 the lexicon and lexical access

7.3 lexical accessin chinese

7.4 the chinese lexicon: what is 'listed'?

7.5 chinese characters and the lexicon

8 chinese words: conclusions

8.1 what have we discovered about words?

8.2 the reality of the 'word'

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