Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20) 
Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20). 2 Volumes. 2008.Edited by Marjorie K.M. Chan and Hana Kang.
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The Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20), which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the NACCL conference series, is dedicated to Professor Edwin G. Pulleyblank, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), in honor of his eighty-fifth birthday, celebrated at the start of NACCL-20 preparations in August 2007.
Printed and bound sets of the NACCL-20 Proceedings will be given to the invited speakers, and some sets will be donated to libraries (e.g. OSU Libraries, U of British Columbia Libraries, U of Alberta Libraries, Library of Congress, etc.) for local borrowing and interlibrary loan. The NACCL-20 Proceedings is available here in PDF format. (Note: Adobe Reader (formerly, Acrobat Reader) version 6.0 or higher is required. The full-text PDF files open in a new window.)
- Download the NACCL-20 Proceedings as two PDF files here: Volume 1 (4.8 MB) -- Volume 2 (3.6 MB).
(Note: The actual covers are printed in much higher resolution than the online versions.) - To download individual papers from the two volumes, see below.
VOLUME 1- Cover for Volume 1
- Title page & copyright page for Volume 1 (pp. i - ii)
- Contents of Volumes 1 & 2 (pp. iii - viii)
- Preface (pp. ix - x)
- Acknowledgements (p. xi - xii)
- History of NACCL: The First Two Decades (p. xiii - xviii)
- Dedication to Professor Edwin G. Pulleyblank (pp. xix - xxi)
- ICS Lecture introduced by Jennifer W. Jay and Derek Herforth - NACCL-20 Papers: Part 1 (pp. 1 - 108)
- Plenary and Invited Papers (Numbered I to V)
- Download the full-text PDF files below. - NACCL-20 Papers: Part 2 - Part 6 (pp. 109 - 526)
- Main Session Papers (Numbered 1 to 30)
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VOLUME 2- Cover for Volume 2
- Title page & copyright page for Volume 2 (pp. i - ii)
- Contents of Volumes 1 & 2 (pp. iii - viii)
- NACCL-20 Papers: Part 7 - Part 9 (pp. 527 - 1058)
- Main Session Papers (Numbered 31 to 69)
- Download the full-text PDF files below. - Author Index (pp. 1059 - 1060)
- Publications of Professor Edwin G. Pulleyblank (pp. 1061 - 1075)
PART 1. PLENARY AND INVITED PAPERS (I - V)
- PULLEYBLANK Edwin G. (Plenary Speaker & ICS Lecture Series Speaker) (PDF file)
Language as digital: A new theory of the origin and nature of human speech (p. 1) - TAI James H.-Y. (Plenary Speaker) (PDF file)
The nature of Chinese grammar: Perspectives from sign language (p. 21) - LI Yen-hui Audrey (Plenary Speaker) (PDF file)
Case, 20 years later (p. 41) - ERNST Thomas (Invited Speaker) (PDF file)
Language as digital: A new theory of the origin and nature of human speech (p. 69) - SANDERS Robert (Invited Speaker) (PDF file)
Tonetic sound change in Taiwan Mandarin: The case of Tone 2 and Tone 3 citation contours (p. 87)
- DUANMU San (PDF file)
The spotty-data problem in phonology (p. 109) - GUO Lijuan and TAO Liang (PDF file)
Tone production in Mandarin Chinese by American students: A case study (p. 123) - HUNG Tsun-Hui and LEE Chao-Yang (PDF file)
Processing linguistic and musical pitch by English-speaking musicians and non-musicians (p. 139) - LEE Chao-Yang, TAO Liang and BOND Z.S. (PDF file)
Talker and contextual effects on identifying fragmented Mandarin tones (p. 147) - LIAO Rongrong (PDF file)
Mandarin learners’ tonal patterns: An experimental study (p. 165) - LIN Yen-Hwei (PDF file)
Patterned vowel variation in standard Mandarin loanword adaptation: Evidence from a dictionary corpus (p. 175) - LIU Joyce H.-C. and WANG H. Samuel (PDF file)
Speech errors of tone in Taiwanese (p. 189) - POSS Nicholas, HUNG Tsun-Hui and WILL Udo (PDF file)
The effects of tonal information on lexical activation in Mandarin (p. 205) - WU Chen-huei (PDF file)
Filled pauses in L2 Chinese: A comparison of native and non-native speakers (p. 213) - YANG Chunsheng (PDF file)
Temporal cues of discourse boundaries in L1/L2 Mandarin speech (p. 229)
- LIU Yi-Hsien (PDF file)
Number deletion and classifier realization in three Chinese dialects (p. 243) - PIRANI Laura (PDF file)
Bound roots in Mandarin Chinese and comparison with European "semi-words" (p. 261) - WANG Lianqing (PDF file)
Historical and dialectal variants of Chinese general classifiers -- On the criteria of general classifiers (p. 279) - YIP Colum Chak Lam (PDF file)
Complicating the oversimplification: Chinese numeral classifiers and true measures (p. 285)
- JIN Lingxia (PDF file)
Markedness and second language acquisition of word order in Mandarin Chinese (p. 297) - LIANG Neal Szu-Yen (PDF file)
The acquisition of Chinese shape classifiers by L2 adult learners (p. 309) - ZHANG Yongfang (PDF file)
How Chinese native speakers handle written style material in reading and its application in second language instruction (p. 327)
- CHAN Marjorie K.M. and XU Wang (PDF file)
Modality effects revisited: Iconicity in Chinese Sign Language (p. 343) - GAO Liwei (PDF file)
Language change in progress: Evidence from computer-mediated communication (p. 361) - JAY Jennifer W. (PDF file)
Rapper Jin’s (歐陽靖) ABC: Acquiring spoken Cantonese and transnational identity through restaurant culture and Hong Kong TV (p. 379) - LIAO Silvie (PDF file)
A perceptual dialect study of Taiwan Mandarin: Language attitudes in the era of political battle (p. 391) - QIN Xizhen (PDF file)
Choices in terms of address: A sociolinguistic study of Chinese and American English practices (p. 409) - YAN Jing (PDF file)
Linguistic convergence and divergence in Guangzhou (Canton City): Social variation of Vernacular Written Cantonese (p. 423)
- CHU Chia-ning 竺家寧 (PDF file)
早期佛經詞義的義素研究 -- 與「觀看」意義相關的動詞分析 (p. 437) - HERFORTH Derek (PDF file)
Working out basic patterns in Classical Chinese syntax: Further data on the benefactive ditransitive in Late Zhou (p. 455) - HUANG Yu-cheng 黃育正 (PDF file)
現代漢語程度副詞「格外」的歷時演變過程及其認知解釋 (p. 473) - WU Sue-mei (PDF file)
Instrumentality: The core meaning of the coverb yi 以 in Classical Chinese (p. 489) - WU Xiaoqi (PDF file)
The word order of the ditransitive construction with gei revisited (p. 499) - ZHAO Tong (PDF file)
Reconstruction of Old Chinese back vowels (p. 509) - ZHENG Rongbin (PDF file)
Zhongxian (中仙) Min dialect: A preliminary study of language contact and stratum-formation (p. 517)
- AI Ruixi Ressy and CHEN Jidong (PDF file)
A puzzle in Chinese dative shift (p. 527) - CHANG Melody Ya-Yin (PDF file)
Postverbal particles in Naxi (p. 539) - CHEN Liping (PDF file)
The scalarity of dou in focus structure (p. 549) - CHEN Weirong (PDF file)
Relative clauses in Hui'an dialect (p. 567) - CHENG Hsu-Te Johnny (PDF file)
Attitude phrase and a puzzle of reconstruction (p. 583) - DONAZZAN Marta (PDF file)
Presupposition on times and degrees: The semantics of Mandarin hái (p. 597) - GAO Qian (PDF file)
Word order in Mandarin: Reading and speaking (p. 611) - HE Baozhang 何宝璋 (PDF file)
谈 "有（一）点 + 静态动词" 的语义及语用功能 (p. 627) - HSU Yu-Yin (PDF file)
The sentence-internal topic and focus in Chinese (p. 635) - HU Jianhua and Pan Haihua (PDF file)
Mandarin intransitive verbs and their objects at the syntax-information structure interface (p. 653) - HU Wenze 胡文泽 (PDF file)
‘把’字句语法意义在现代汉语‘把’字结构句中的不均衡表现 (p. 665) - HUANG Hui-Yu Catherine (PDF file)
Ambiguity in the affirmative/negative ‘V u/bo NP’ construction in Taiwanese Southern Min (p. 675) - HUANG Yahui Anita (PDF file)
Prepositions in Chinese bare conditionals (p. 691) - KUO Pei-Jung (PDF file)
Light verb construction as a case of remnant movement (p. 705) - KUONG Io-Kei Joaquim (PDF file)
Yes/no question particles revisited: The grammatical functions of mo4, me1, and maa3 (p. 715) - LI Chao (PDF file)
On the headedness of Mandarin resultative verb compounds (p. 735) - LI Dianyu (PDF file)
Analyzing passive constructions in the finite state (p. 751) - LI Kening (PDF file)
Contrastive Focus Structure in Mandarin Chinese (p. 759) - LIN Yi-An (PDF file)
A probe-goal approach to parametric variation in English and Mandarin Chinese nominal phrases (p. 775) - QIAN Nairong 钱乃荣 (PDF file)
上海方言的时态 (p. 785) - REN Fei (PDF file)
Temporal meaning of -le in Chinese (p. 789) - ROUZER Jack (PDF file)
Adjectivals and adverbials: On the representation of quantities and qualities in Chinese and implications for language typology (p. 801) - SHEN Yang 沈阳 (PDF file)
补语小句和处所义双宾结构的句法构造 (p. 813) - SIMPSON Andrew and HO Hao Tam (PDF file)
The comparative syntax of passive structures in Chinese and Vietnamese (p. 825) - TIEU Lyn Shan (PDF file)
Non-referential verb use in Chinese: A unified verb copying analysis (p. 843) - TSENG Yu-Ching (PDF file)
Branching consistency as a syntactic OCP constraint on Hakka relative construction (p. 861) - WANG Xin (PDF file)
The semantics and pragmatics of liandou/ye, lian, dou, and ye (p. 875) - ZHANG Lan (PDF file)
Locative inversion and aspect markers le and zhe in Mandarin Chinese (p. 893) - ZHANG Qing (PDF file)
The negative auxiliary in Chinese imperatives (p. 903)
- HSU Dong-Bo (PDF file)
Structural persistence in Mandarin Chinese preschoolers (p. 913) - HUANG Yu-chi and KAISER Elsi (PDF file)
Investigating filler-gap dependencies in Chinese topicalization (p. 927) - NG Shukhan (PDF file)
An active gap strategy in the processing of filler-gap dependencies in Chinese (p. 943) - WANG Zhijun (PDF file)
Context coercion in sentence processing: Evidence from Chinese (p. 959)
- DONG Xinran (PDF file)
Chinese requests in academic settings (p. 975) - HE Yi (PDF file)
Humor in discourse: A linguistic study of the Chinese dialect film, Crazy Stone (疯狂的石头) (p. 989) - KANG Hana (PDF file)
A discourse analysis of code-switching in Falling Leaves and Luoyeguigen (落葉歸根) (p. 999) - MENG Nan (PDF file)
Making requests: A pragmatic study of Chinese mother-child dyads (p. 1011) - TSAI I-Ni (PDF file)
Projecting the unanticipatory: The Mandarin particle ei and its projectability in daily conversation (p. 1023) - YANG Jia (PDF file)
How to say ‘no’ in Chinese: A pragmatic study of refusal strategies in five TV series (p. 1041)
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