Cognition-Based Studies on Chinese Grammar

Introducing the English translations of 8 selected research articles originally written in Chinese by Professor Yuan Yulin, Cognition-based Studies on Chinese Grammar is an essential reading for researchers in Chinese syntax. Yuan Yulin is one of the very first Chinese scholars who introduced cognitive sciences into the study of Chinese language some twenty years ago, and his work is well-known and highly regarded in China for its originality and theoretical contribution. The collection covers the core of his engagement with Chinese language studies, ranging from lexical exploration to grammatical discussion. Cognition-based Studies on Chinese Grammar is designed for students or researchers who specialize in the Chinese language, contemporary Chinese grammar and cognitive linguistics. It can also serve as a reference book for instructors or teachers engaged in Chinese language pedagogy or in teaching Chinese as a second or foreign language.

Yuan Yulin is a Professor in the Department of Chinese at Peking University, China. Wu Guoxiang is also in the Department of Chinese at Peking University, China.

1. Yuan Yulin. 1992. On valence of nouns in Mandarin Chinese (-----------), in Social Sciences in China (------). 2. Yuan Yulin. 1994. A cognitive study of the mono-valent noun in Mandarin Chinese (---------), in Studies of The Chinese Language (----). 3. Yuan Yulin. 1995. The implied predicate and its syntactic consequences - the rule of the de-construction and the grammatical and semantic functions of de (------------"-"---------"-"--------), in Studies of The Chinese Language (----). 4. Yuan Yulin. 2002. The noun representing the verb phrase and the wave of pronominal signification (----------------), in Studies of The Chinese Language (----) 5. Yuan Yulin. 2004. Argument structure and the motivation, the mechanism and the condition for syntactic patterning interaction: the influence of delicate expression on verbal valency and syntactic construction (----------------------------------------), in Studies in Language and Linguistics (----) 6. Yuan Yulin. 1995. The family resemblance of word-class categories (----------), in Social Sciences in China (------) 7. Yuan Yulin. 2005. A membership-based fuzzy classification of Chinese words (---------------), in Social Sciences in China (------) 8. Yuan Yulin. 1996. Topicalization and related grammatical processes (-----------), in Studies of The Chinese Language (----) 9. Yuan Yulin. 2002. The grammatical importance of the topic in Chinese and the degree of its grammaticalization: a diachronic and synchronic consideration based on the actual use of spoken Chinese (-------------------------------), in Linguistics Forum (-----) (25). Beijing: The Commercial Press. 10. Yuan Yulin. 1999. A cognitive interpretation of the attribute order and its theoretical entailment, in Social Sciences in China (------) 11. Yuan Yulin. 2004. On some grammatical phenomena related to container metaphor and set metaphor: towards a cognitive explanation and a computational analysis of co-occurrence restriction of words (---------------------------------), in Studies of The Chinese Language (----) 12. Yuan Yulin. 2005. A new explanation of the semantic function and association direction of dou (-) ("-"------------), in Studies of The Chinese Language (----) 13. Yuan Yulin. 2007. On the implicit negation and NPI licensing of dou (-) (-"-"------------), in Studies of The Chinese Language (----) 14. Yuan Yulin. 2003. On the syntactic and semantic function of de in the sentence final position: from a viewpoint of the modern focus theory (--------"-"-------), in Studies of The Chinese Language (----) 15. Yuan Yulin. 1997. On the grammatical function of zhe (-) and its historical evolution ("-"-----------), in Studies of The Chinese Language (----) 16. Yuan Yulin. 1993. The positive-negative question and its relative typologic parameters, in Studies of The Chinese Language (----)