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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 September 2010
      03 August 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511486821
      9780521771122
      9780521026109
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486821
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.69kg, 352 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 352 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, Asian Language and Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
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    This ground breaking study dispels the common belief that Chinese 'doesn't have words' but instead 'has characters'. Jerome Packard's book provides a comprehensive discussion of the linguistic and cognitive nature of Chinese words. It shows that Chinese, far from being 'morphologically impoverished', has a different morphological system because it selects different 'settings' on parameters shared by all languages. The analysis of Chinese word formation therefore enhances our understanding of word universals. Packard describes the intimate relationship between words and their components, including how the identities of Chinese morphemes are word-driven, and offers new insights into the evolution of morphemes based on Chinese data. Models are offered for how Chinese words are stored in the mental lexicon and processed in natural speech, showing that much of what native speakers know about words occurs innately in the form of a hard-wired, specifically linguistic 'program' in the brain.

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    ‘… an important link between the Chinese linguistic tradition and late twentieth-century advances in western morphology.’

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