PUBLICATIONS ARISING FROM THE ERC SINOTYPE PROJECT “THE HYBRID SYNTACTIC TYPOLOGY OF SINITIC LANGUAGES” ADVANCED GRANT #230388

1 January 2009 – June 2013

BOOKS: Chappell, Hilary (ed.). 2015. Diversity in Sinitic languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (280pp.) editor/author

Chen Yujie. 2010. Hanyu zhishici de leixingxue yanjiu. 《汉语指示词的类型学研究》 (Demonstratives in Sinitic languages-a typological perspective). Beijing: 中国社会科学出版社 Chinese Social Sciences Press.

Li XuPing. In press, 2013. Numeral classifiers in Chinese at the syntax-semantics interface. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter Mouton.

Wang Jian. 2013. Suwan quyu fangyan yufa bijiao yanjiu «苏皖区域方言语法比较研究». (Comparative research on grammar of dialects in the Jiangsu-Anhui region). Beijing: The Commercial Press.

ARTICLES: Chappell, Hilary. 2011. A comitative source for object markers in Sinitic languages: 跟 kai55 in Waxiang and 共 kang7 in Southern Min. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 20.4: 291-338. (with Alain Peyraube and Yunji Wu).

Chappell, Hilary. 2011. Ya33 ‘give’ as a valency increaser in Jinghpo nuclear serialization: from benefactive to malefactive. Studies in Language 35.1.128-167 (with Guozhen Peng).

Chen Yujie. 2011. Zhongxing zhishici yu zhongzhi zhishici《中性指示词与中指指示词》(Neutral versus medial demonstratives). Fangyan方言 (Dialect) 2:172-181.

Chen, Yujie; de Sousa, Hilario; Wang, Jian; Ngai, Sing Sing; Li, Xuping; Chen, Weirong and Chappell, Hilary (陈玉洁; Hilario de Sousa; 王健 ; 倪星星 ;李旭平; 陈伟蓉; 曹茜蕾). 2014. Láibǐxí biāozhù xìtǒng jí qí zài Hànyǔ yǔfǎ yánjiū zhōng de yìngyòng (莱比锡标注系统及其在汉语语法研究中的应用) The Leipzig glossing rules and its application in the research of Chinese grammar. Fāngyán (方言) 1: 1–13.

de Sousa, Hilário. 2011. ‘Changes in the Language of Perception in Cantonese’. Senses and Society 6(1): 38–47. doi: 10.2752/174589311X12893982233678

de Sousa, Hilário. 2012. ‘Generational Differences in the Orientation of Time in Cantonese Speakers as a Function of Changes in the Direction of Chinese Writing’. Frontiers in Cultural Psychology 3: 255. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg. 2012.00255

Li Lan 李蓝 and Hilary Chappell. 2013a.汉语方言中的处置式和把字句 (上) Hanyu fangyan-zhong de chuzhishi he ‘bă’ ziju (shang) (The disposal and bă constructions in Chinese dialects (Part I). Fangyan方言 (Dialect) 1: 11-30.

Li Lan 李蓝 and Hilary Chappell. 2013b. 汉语方言中的处置式和把字句 (下) Hanyu fangyan-zhong de chuzhishi he ‘bă’ ziju (xia) (The disposal and bă constructions in Chinese dialects (Part II). Fangyan 方言(Dialect) 2: 97-110.

Li XuPing. 2012. Classifiers in Sinitic languages: From individuation to definiteness-marking. Lingua 122.4: 335-355 (with Walter Bisang).

Li XuPing. 2012. Measure readings of Chinese classifier phrases and the particle de. Language and linguistics 13.4: 693-741. (with Susan Rothstein).

Li Xuping and Yicheng Wu. 2015. Ditransitives in three Gan dialects : valence increasing and preposition incorporation. Language Sciences 50 (2015) : 66-77. Li XuPing. 2014. Wuyu ji qi linjin fangyan-zhong “shuci he qinshu” mingci lianyong xianxiang de kaolü 吴语及其邻近方言中“数词和亲属”名词连用现象的考察(On “numeral + kinship” terms in Wu and its neighboring dialects). Zhongguo Yuwen中国语文(Chinese Linguistics), 1:102-104.

Wang Jian 王健. 2010. Sūwǎn fāngyán zhōng ‘diǎo’lèicí de gōngshí biǎoxiàn hé yǔfǎhuà děngjí 苏皖方言中“掉”类词的共时表现和语法化等级 Synchronic behaviors and degrees of grammaticalization of diào and its equivalents in dialects in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces Yuanyan kexue 语言科学 (Language Sciences) 2:187-196.

Wang Jian王健. 2011. ‘Lianshui hua zhong de xici dou « 涟水话中的系词“斗”» (The copula dou 斗in the Lianshui dialect)’. Zhongguo Yuwen中国语文(Chinese Linguistics) 6: 532-535 (with Gu Jinsong).

Wang Jian. 2013. Nánfāng fāngyán zhōng yīxiē láiyuányú yánshuō dòngcí de yìwài fànchóu biāojì南方方言中一些来源于言说动词的意外范畴标记 (‘From SAY verbs to mirative markers’). Fangyan方言 (Dialect) 2: 111-119

Wang Jian. 2013. Lèixíngxué shìjiǎo xià de hànyǔfāngyán liàngmíng jiégòu yánjiū类型学视角下的汉语方言 “量名”结构研究 ‘Typological research on Classifier-Noun constructions in Sinitic languages’. Yuyan Kexue (Language Sciences) 4: 375-385.

Wu Jianming. 2012. ‘Feiren cheng’ fanchou de Hanyu shijiao非人称范畴的汉语视角(Impersonality from Sinitic perspectives). Waiguoyu外国语Journal of Foreign Languages 35. 2: 31 – 38 (with Anna Siewierska).

BOOK CHAPTERS: Chappell, Hilary. 2011. Grammaticalization in Sinitic languages. Chapter 65. In Bernd Heine & Heiko Narrog (eds.) The Oxford handbook of grammaticalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 786-796 (with Alain Peyraube).

Chappell, Hilary. 2012. SAY in Sinitic: from verba dicendi to attitudinal discourse markers. In Johan van der Auwera and Jan Nuyts (eds.) Grammaticalization and (inter-)subjectification, Brussels : Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts), pp. 81-110.

Chappell, Hilary. 2013. Pan-Sinitic object markers: morphology and syntax. In Cao Guangshun, H. Chappell, R. Djamouri & Thekla Wiebusch (eds.). Breaking down the barriers: interdisciplinary studies in Chinese linguistics and beyond. 2 vols. Taipei: Academia Sinica, pp.785-816.

Chappell, Hilary. 2015. Ways of tackling diversity in Sinitic languages. In Hilary Chappell (ed.), Diversity in Sinitic languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-12.

Chappell, Hilary. 2015. Linguistic areas in China for differential object marking, passive and comparative constructions, In Hilary Chappell (ed.), Diversity in Sinitic languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press pp.13-52.

Chappell, Hilary. 2015. The comparative construction in Sinitic languages: synchronic and diachronic variation, In Hilary Chappell (ed.), Diversity in Sinitic languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 134-154 (with Alain Peyraube).

Chappell, Hilary. 2016. Major non-canonical clause types in Mandarin Chinese: bă, bèi, and ditransitives. Chapter 15 in Reference Grammar of the Chinese Language. Chu-Ren Huang & Dingxu Shi (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 53-83.

Chappell, Hilary. 2016. Modality and mood in Sinitic languages. In Jan Nuyts & Johan van der Auwera (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Mood and Modality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 296-329 (with Alain Peyraube).

Chappell, Hilary. 2017. Say-complementizers in Sinitic languages. In Sybesma, Rint; Behr, Wolfgang; Gu, Yueguo; Handel, Zev; Huang, C.-T. James and Myers, James (eds.), Encyclopedia of Chinese language and linguistics, vol. 3, 658-664. Leiden: Brill.

Chappell, Hilary. 2017. From verbs of saying to attitudinal discourse marker in Southern Min: (inter)subjectivity and grammaticalization. In Hubert Cuyckens, Lobke Ghesquière and Daniël Van Olmen (eds.), Aspects of Grammaticalization: (Inter)Subjectification and Unidirectionality. (Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 305) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 139-165.

Chappell, Hilary. Forthcoming. A grammatical sketch of Southern Min (Sinitic). In Alice Vittrant & Justin Watkins (eds.) The Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Chen, Weirong. 2015. Comparative constructions of inequality in the Southern Min dialect of Hui’an, in Hilary Chappell (ed.), Diversity in Sinitic languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 273-302.

Chen Yujie. 2015. The semantic differentiation of demonstratives in Sinitic languages - A typological perspective. In Hilary Chappell (ed.), Diversity in Sinitic languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 81-109.

Chen Yujie. Forthcoming. Hanyu mingci-xing duanyu de zhicheng leixingxue yanjiu汉语名词性短语的指称类型学研究 (‘A typological study on the reference of NPs in Chinese’). In Chen Qianrui( ed.) 陈前瑞主编 Hanyu yanjiu de leixingxue shiye 汉语研究的类型学视野(A Typological Study on Chinese). Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press. 北京语言大学出版社.

de Sousa, Hilário. 2015a. Language contact in Nanning: Nanning Pinghua and Nanning Cantonese. In Chappell, Hilary (ed.), Diversity in Sinitic languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.157–189.

de Sousa, Hilário. 2015b. The Far Southern Sinitic Languages as part of Mainland Southeast Asia. In Enfield, N.J. & Comrie, Bernard (eds.), Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The state of the art (Pacific Linguistics 649), 356–439. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

de Sousa, Hilário; Langella, François and Enfield, N.J. 2015. Temperature terms in Lao, Southern Zhuang, Southern Pinghua and Cantonese. In Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), Linguistics of temperature (Typological studies in language 107), 594–638. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

de Sousa, Hilário. 2017. Pínghuà 平話 Dialects. In Sybesma, Rint; Behr, Wolfgang; Gu, Yueguo; Handel, Zev; Huang, C.-T. James and Myers, James (eds.), Encyclopedia of Chinese language and linguistics, vol. 3, 425–431. Leiden: Brill.

Li XuPing. 2015. Complex emphatic pronouns in Wu Chinese: focalization and topicalization, in H. Chappell (ed.), Diversity in Sinitic languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 226-247.

Li, XuPing. 2015. Ditransitive constructions in Gan Chinese. A case study of the Yichun dialect. In Brian Nolan, Gudrun Rawoens & Elke Diedrichsen (eds). Causation, Permission, and Transfer: Argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT ... Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 177-194.

Ngai, Sing Sing. 2015a. On the origin of special numerals for ‘one’ in south-eastern China: kɛi213 in the Western Min dialect of Shaowu’, in H. Chappell (ed.), Diversity in Sinitic languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.190-225.

Ngai, Sing Sing. 2015b. Giving is receiving: The polysemy of the GET/GIVE verb tie53 in Shaowu, in Causation, Permission, and Transfer. Argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT, GIVE and LET verbs, by Nolan Brian, Gudrun Rawoens and Elke Diedrichsen (eds.) SLCS 167, 2015.


Ngai, Sing Sing. 2016. Shaowu: a hybrid dialect in Southeast China, Encyclopaedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Zev Handel et al (eds.), Brill, 2016.


Wang Jian. 2015. ‘Bare classifier phrases in Sinitic languages: a typological perspective’. In H. Chappell (ed.), Diversity in Sinitic languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.110-133.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: Li XuPing. 2010. Two types of measure readings in Chinese classifier phrase. In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Chinese and linguistics. Taipei: Academia Sinica. Pp. 203-228. (Co-author: Susan Rothstein).

de Sousa, Hilário 蘇沙. 2013. Nánníng Shàngyáo Pínghuà de yīxiē míngcí duǎnyǔ xiànxiàng duìbǐ yánjiū (南宁上尧平话的一些名词短语现象对比研究) Comparative study on some noun phrase phenomena in Nanning Shangyao Pinghua. In Liú, Dānqīng (刘丹青) & Zhōu, Léi (周磊) & Xuē, Cáidé (薛才德) (eds.), Hànyǔ fāngyán yǔfǎ yánjiū de xīnshìjiǎo — Dìwǔjiè Hànyǔ Fāngyán Yǔfǎ Guǒjì Xuéshù Yántǎohuì lùnwénjí (汉语方言语法研究的新视角 — 第五届汉语方言语法国际学术研讨会论文集) New viewpoints on the studies of the grammar of Chinese dialects — Proceedings of the Fifth International Academic Conference on the Grammar of Chinese Dialects, 141–160. Shanghai: Shanghai Education Publishing House.

Wang Jian. 2013. Jixi Lingbei fangyan zhong de liangci duyong xianxiang « 绩溪岭北方言中的量词独用现象» (Classifier + noun’ phrase in the Jixi Lingbei dialect). In Liú, Dānqīng (刘丹青) & Zhōu, Léi (周磊) & Xuē, Cáidé (薛才德) (eds.), Hànyǔ fāngyán yǔfǎ yánjiū de xīnshìjiǎo — Dìwǔjiè Hànyǔ Fāngyán Yǔfǎ Guǒjì Xuéshù Yántǎohuì lùnwénjí (汉语方言语法研究的新视角 — 第五届汉语方言语法国际学术研讨会论文集) New viewpoints on the studies of the grammar of Chinese dialects — Proceedings of the Fifth International Academic Conference on the Grammar of Chinese Dialects. Shanghai: Shanghai Education Publishing House.

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