书稿以汉译佛经史上的重要翻译作品——支谦译经——的复音词为研究对象，从语言接触和文化互动的角度，具体、深入地考察了汉译佛经词汇的生成与演变，并就因此而形成的汉译佛经语言对汉语词汇发展的影响作了探讨，对汉语词典的编纂也提出了参考性意见。

- Collects twelve new papers that explore the syntax of Chinese in comparison with other languages.
- Opens up new avenues of research, connecting studies of Chinese with work being carried out on other languages.
Chinese Syntax in a Cross-linguistic Perspective is a collection of sixteen original papers by leading experts in Chinese syntax. The papers focus on a broad range of topics, demonstrating how the analysis of Chinese can inform our understanding of syntactic phenomena in other languages, and how insights gained in the study of other languages can in turn shed interesting new light on patterns in Chinese. Each chapter compares a specific major phenomenon in Chinese syntax with related patterns in at least one other language from Asia, Europe, North America or Africa, resulting in a series of fresh perspectives on Chinese and what the study of Chinese can offer linguists working on other, genetically unrelated languages.
The volume is divided into three thematic sections, on the nominal domain, the predicate domain, and the C-domain. In addition to chapters on synchronic, adult syntax, the book includes chapters on Chinese diachronic syntax in a comparative perspective and the acquisition of syntax in Chinese, in comparison with that of other languages. The collection is a tribute to Professor C.-T. James Huang's lifelong work on the syntax of Chinese and his attempts to demonstrate how the comparative analysis of Chinese reveals important properties of Universal Grammar. With its broad, cross-linguistic focus and its detailed, new studies of Chinese, this book is essential reading for researchers of all language backgrounds in modern generative syntax.

The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language history, and methods and approaches that are relevant to the study of it. The field is now interested in, and attracts, specialists whose fields range from statistical modeling to acoustic phonetics. These changes have even transformed linguists' perceptions of the very processes of language change, particularly in English, the most studied language in historical linguistics due to the size of available data and its status as a global language. The Oxford Handbook of the History of English takes stock of recent advances in the study of the history of English, broadening and deepening the understanding of the field. It seeks to suggest ways to rethink the relationship of English's past with its present, and make transparent the variety of conditions and processes that have been instrumental in shaping that history. Setting a new standard of cross-disciplinary collaboration, it covers the field in an innovative way, providing diachronic accounts of major influences such as language contact, and typological processes that have shaped English and its varieties, as well as highlighting recent and ongoing developments of Englishes--celebrating the vitality of language change over the centuries and the many contexts and processes through which language change occurs.

Statistical analysis is a useful skill for linguists and psycholinguists, allowing them to understand the quantitative structure of their data. This textbook provides a straightforward introduction to the statistical analysis of language. Designed for linguists with a non-mathematical background, it clearly introduces the basic principles and methods of statistical analysis, using 'R', the leading computational statistics programme. The reader is guided step-by-step through a range of real data sets, allowing them to analyse acoustic data, construct grammatical trees for a variety of languages, quantify register variation in corpus linguistics, and measure experimental data using state-of-the-art models. The visualization of data plays a key role, both in the initial stages of data exploration and later on when the reader is encouraged to criticize various models. Containing over 40 exercises with model answers, this book will be welcomed by all linguists wishing to learn more about working with and presenting quantitative data.

Every person who encounters or learns another language is faced with the challenge of processing many new words in a short period of time. What are the conditions under which a learner can acquire those words successfully and process them to long-term memory? How do language and memory faculties interact? What role do the senses play in this process? Are factors such as age or individual backgrounds of learners to be considered? Taking the reader on a fascinating journey through the brain to demonstrate how language is processed, Ulf Schütze explains the dynamic environment involved in recording and producing words. The book also discusses how to use information technology, such as Apps, to make the learning of words entertaining and efficient.

Most societies in today's world are multilingual. "Language contact" occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. This book is an introduction to the subject, covering individual and societal multilingualism, the acquisition of two or more languages from birth, second-language acquisition in adulthood, language change, linguistic typology, language processing, and the structure of language faculty. It explains the effects of multilingualism on society and language policy, as well as the consequences that long-term bilingualism within communities can have for the structure of languages. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism, the book provides a clear analysis of such phenomena as language convergence, grammatical borrowing, and mixed languages.
● An integrated approach - covers both individual and societal bilingualism
● Includes authentic, first-hand examples of child and adult bilingualism
● Includes a detailed survey by category of structural borrowing

Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book examines the history of western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from its origins in ancient Greece up to the crucial moment of change in the Renaissance that laid the foundations of modern linguistics. Some of today's burning questions about language date back a long way: in 1400 BC Plato was asking how words relate to reality. Other questions go back just a few generations, such as our interest in the mechanisms of language change, or in the social factors that shape the way we speak. Vivien Law explores how ideas about language over the centuries have changed to reflect changing modes of thinking. A survey chapter brings the coverage of the book up to the present day. Classified bibliographies and chapters on research resources and the qualities the historian of linguistics needs to develop, provide the reader with the tools to go further.

本书以袁毓林博士的博士学位论文为基础，对现代汉语中十来种较典型的祈使句式进行了介绍，并讨论了动词、形容词等谓词性成分在祈使句受到句法、语义等约束问题。

《现代汉语祈使句人际功能研究》讲述语言是人类的交际工具，研究语言不研究人际关系是不行的。随着语法研究的发展，语法学家必然会把目光投注于人际关系对语言结构和语言运用的影响。举一个简单的例子，“你给我出去！”这句话，面对不同交际对象的时候，是不是都能说，含义和作用是否相同，就很值得研究。我们现在的语法研究已明确把语义和语用纳入研究范围，语法已不再是传统语法意义上的单纯的结构组织规律。语法研究要能更好地指导人们的语言实践，就必须注重这种语言功能和语言运用规律的研究。

《指令行为与汉语祈使句研究》内容简介：中华民族具有悠久的学术文化传统，两千年前儒家经典《大学》即倡言“大学之道，在明明德，在亲民，在止于至善”。其意即涵蕴着彰扬学术、探索真理。而《中庸》论道：“博学之、慎思之、审问之、明辩之、笃行之。”则阐释了学术研究的治学精神以及达到真实无妄境界的必由之路。因此，从对世界历史进程的审视与洞察，社会发展、科学昌明、思想进步，从来离不开学术科研力量与成就的滋养与推动。
大学是国家与社会发展中一个不可或缺的重要力量，而科学研究的水平则又体现了大学的办学水平和综合实力，是一所现代大学重要的标志。因此，一个大学的学术气氛，不仅在很大程度上影响和引导着学校的科研状态，而且渗透和浸润着这个大学追求真理的精神信念。这正如英国教育思想家纽曼所言，大学是一切知识和科学、事实和原理、探索与发展、实验与思索的高级力量，它态度自由中立，传授普遍知识，描绘理智疆域，但决不屈服于任何一方。
大学的使命应是人才培养、科学研究和服务社会；高等教育发展的核心是学术和人才。因此，大学应成为理论创新、知识创新和科技创新的重要基地，在国家创新体系中应具有十分重要的地位和意义。上海政法学院是一所正在迅速兴起的大学，学院注重内涵建设和综合协调发展，现已有法学、政治学、社会学、经济学、管理学、语言学等学科专业。学院以“刻苦、求实、开拓、创新”为校训。这既是学校办学理念集中的体现，也是学术精神的象征。

This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech, noun, verb and adjective, that account both for their syntactic behaviour and for their observed typological variation. Based on an examination of languages from five different groups, Salishan, Cora, Quechua, Totonac and Hausa, this book argues that parts of speech must be defined by combining the criteria of syntactic markedness, which characterises lexical classes in terms of unmarked syntactic roles and semantic prototypicality, which delimits their prototypical meanings. Adjectives are shown to be the marked (and hence, most variable) class because of their inherent non-iconicity at the semantics/syntax interface. The four-member typology of parts of speech systems (languages with three open classes, those that group adjectives with verbs, those that group adjectives with nouns and those that conflate all three) current in the literature is easily generated by free recombination of these two critical features. Closer examination of the data however, casts doubt on the existence of one of the four possible language-types, the noun-adjective conflating theory, which is accounted for here by replacing free recombination of semantic and syntactic features with an algorithm for the subdivision of the lexicon that gives primacy to semantics over syntax.