Academic development always comes as a result of unceasing correlations, communication, and mingling among different academic traditions. Bernhard Karlgren's work serves as an admirable exam ple. Because of his significant achievement in traditional Chinese phonology, any omission of his name from the history of Chinese linguistics, or more specifically, the history of Chinese phonological studies, is unimaginable. Karlgren's achievements, however, benefited greatly from previous research in Chinese philology. In his own words, he described himself as extremely lucky to have had rhyming dictionaries and rhyme tables reflecting the qieyun system when studying Middle Chinese, and to have had the Shijing (The Book of Odes) and xiesheng systems available to him when working with Old Chinese.

This is a translated collection of the most distinguishedjournal articles of the Chinese linguistics field. Articles wereselected for their originality, novelty, theoretical significance,and enlightenment to general linguistics study. Most ofthe articles selected were published in the last five years.The eighteen articles included in this book cover nearlyall major areas of Chinese linguistics, such as phonology,syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language contact, languageevolution, and comparative studies of Sino-Tibetan languages.These articles document discussions of some theoreticalissues through the case studies of Asian languages. Thisbook is appropriate for readers of the linguistics circle andserves as a reference book in Chinese linguistics study.

前言

音系

 重音、信息和语言的分类

 藏缅语族松紧元音研究

 天津话的连读变调及轻声：优选论分析

 “天津话连读变调之谜”的优选论解释

语法

 汉语是话语概念结构化语言吗？

 非谓形容词的词类地位

 方位词的词性及其理论意义

 被字句和把字句的对称与不对称

 从日语的角度看汉语被动句的特点

语义

 再谈相同词语之间语义关系的多重性

 概念叠加与构式整合

 汉语类指成分的语义属性和句法属性

 反义类比构词中的语义不对应及其成因

 词类范畴的家族相似性

语言演变

 汉藏语系语言里的一个疑问语素

 竞争性音变与历史层次

 水语里汉语借词层次分析方法

 交际压力度(DCP)与混合语形成机制——以倒话为例