Linguistic Interfaces in East-Asian Languages

Jen Ting is Professor of English and Linguistics at the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. Drawing on both cross-linguistic and experimental data of syntax and morphology, she has published in journals such as Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, Linguistics, The Linguistic Review, among others. Of various academic services, she served as Editor-in-Chief for the THCI journal Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, as Executive Committee Member of Linguistic Society of Taiwan (2010-2011), and as Executive Committee Member of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (2013-2015). Yu-Yin Hsu is Assistant Professor of Chinese linguistics at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests have been on syntactic interfaces of information structure, focus prosody, technology and Chinese language education, and natural language processing. She has served as Reviewer for journals such as Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Phonetics, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Lingua, Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, and Lingua Sinica.

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part 1 Interfaces Involving Morphosyntactic Properties.- Chapter 2 Incorporating Compound Pitch Accent and Tone Melody into Merge.- Chapter 3 On the Morphosyntax and Semantics of Distributive and Collective Predicates in Arabic Reciprocal Constructions.- Chapter 4 An Exploration into the Relation between Merge and Categorization in Evolinguistics: Some Possible Implications for East Asian Linguistics.- Part 2 Syntax-discourse/pragmatics Interfaces.- Chapter 5 Bare Quotatives in Japanese and Korean: A Case Study of Embedded Speech Acts.- Chapter 6 Impersonal bei Passives in Early Mandarin: Form and Function.- Part 3 Syntax-information Structure Interfaces.- Chapter7 The Interpretive Functions of the So-called Japanese Topic Marker wa.- Chapter 8 Focus Inside: Evidence from the Spanish FS Construction and Chinese shi Cleft.- Part 4 Experimental Approaches to the Interface Areas.- Chapter 9 Recursive Focus Prosody.- Chapter 10 The L2 Acquisition of Semantico-pragmatic Properties of Korean Topic and Focus Particles.- Chapter 11 Reproducibility in Language Faculty Science.