Chaofen Sun
Biographic Data
| ID | 3823787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chaofen Sun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chaofen |
| FAMILY NAME | Sun |
| SIGNATURE | SUN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The development of the Chinese discourse marker and expressive wanle
Key Issues in Chinese As a Second Language Research
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
202211 bckw
The Influence of Buddhist Sanskrit on Chinese
Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
Sino-Tibetan Syntax
This chapter discusses the word order patterns in the Sino-Tibetan languages. The two branches, Sinitic (Chinese) and Tibeto-Burman, differ in that clauses in Sinitic are largely verb-medial while those in Tibeto-Burman are verb-final. This chapter explains both patterns using information structure rather than grammatical relations, and looks at the historical factors that led to the different patterns in the two branches of the family. The evide…
Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
Two Conditions and Grammaticalization of the Chinese Locative
Chinese
Chinese is spoken by more people than any other language in the world, and has a rich social, cultural and historical background. This 2006 book is a comprehensive guide to the linguistic structure of Chinese, providing an accessible introduction to each of the key areas. It describes the fundamentals of its writing system, its pronunciation and tonal sound system, its morphology (how words are structured), and its syntax (how sentences are forme…
Aspectual categories that overlap
Word-Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese
On the Origin of the Sentence-Final Laizhe
L'A. examine deux lexemes LAI et ZHE en moyen-chinois et en mandarin. La grammaticalisation de ces deux verbes en moyen-chinois dans des temps ulterieurs a laisse en dialecte beijing-moderne une expression figee LAIZHE indiquant une experience passe. Les utilisations de la parente de ZHE dans differents dialectes chinois-moderne sont compares avec les utilisations pre-modernes pour montrer comment elles peuvent etre reliees a certaines proprietes…
On the So-Called Sov Word Order in Mandarin Chinese
Two theses concerning word order in Mandarin Chinese have been investigated through a quantified study of written and spoken contemporary Mandarin. It is found, first, that Mandarin is synchronically a typical VO language, in terms of text distribution of VO and OV orders. OV appears at the level of 10% or lower in text, and this is true for both definite and indefinite objects. Further, the functional distribution of OV in both texts suggests th…
On the So-Called Sov Word Order in Mandarin Chinese
Two theses concerning word order in Mandarin Chinese have been investigated through a quantified study of written and spoken contemporary Mandarin. It is found, first, that Mandarin is synchronically a typical VO language, in terms of text distribution of VO and OV orders. OV appears at the level of 10% or lower in text, and this is true for both definite and indefinite objects. Further, the functional distribution of OV in both texts suggests th…
The development of the Chinese discourse marker and expressive wanle
On the So-Called Sov Word Order in Mandarin Chinese
Two theses concerning word order in Mandarin Chinese have been investigated through a quantified study of written and spoken contemporary Mandarin. It is found, first, that Mandarin is synchronically a typical VO language, in terms of text distribution of VO and OV orders. OV appears at the level of 10% or lower in text, and this is true for both definite and indefinite objects. Further, the functional distribution of OV in both texts suggests th…
On the Origin of the Sentence-Final Laizhe
L'A. examine deux lexemes LAI et ZHE en moyen-chinois et en mandarin. La grammaticalisation de ces deux verbes en moyen-chinois dans des temps ulterieurs a laisse en dialecte beijing-moderne une expression figee LAIZHE indiquant une experience passe. Les utilisations de la parente de ZHE dans differents dialectes chinois-moderne sont compares avec les utilisations pre-modernes pour montrer comment elles peuvent etre reliees a certaines proprietes…
Aspectual categories that overlap
Word-Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese
Chinese
Chinese is spoken by more people than any other language in the world, and has a rich social, cultural and historical background. This 2006 book is a comprehensive guide to the linguistic structure of Chinese, providing an accessible introduction to each of the key areas. It describes the fundamentals of its writing system, its pronunciation and tonal sound system, its morphology (how words are structured), and its syntax (how sentences are forme…
Two Conditions and Grammaticalization of the Chinese Locative
Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
202211 bckw
The Influence of Buddhist Sanskrit on Chinese
Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
Sino-Tibetan Syntax
This chapter discusses the word order patterns in the Sino-Tibetan languages. The two branches, Sinitic (Chinese) and Tibeto-Burman, differ in that clauses in Sinitic are largely verb-medial while those in Tibeto-Burman are verb-final. This chapter explains both patterns using information structure rather than grammatical relations, and looks at the historical factors that led to the different patterns in the two branches of the family. The evide…
Key Issues in Chinese As a Second Language Research
The development of the Chinese discourse marker and expressive wanle
Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · History (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Chinese language (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works)