[ A left bracket indicates the point at which a current speaker's utterance is overlapped by the
talk of another, which appears on the next line attributed to another speaker. If there is more …

The study of Chinese grammar from a 'functional'point of view reflects the general functional,
cognitive, and discourse tradition in current linguistics (see Chafe 1992; Hopper, 1992; …

Drawing on a corpus of 35 hours of videotaped face-to-face conversations collected in
Beijing and Hebei, China, this conversation analytic study examines self-praising behavior …

This study investigates the Mandarin temporal system in ordinary conversations. It is found
that during the dynamic time course of interaction, Mandarin speakers tend to rely more …

This study investigates Mandarin discourse markers from both functional and prosodic
perspectives. Discourse markers are defined as sequentially dependent elements which …

Discourse-and-grammar is a branch of functional linguistics that takes the position that the
internal structures can be shaped by forces arising out of discourse. Cognitive and …

This paper investigates the diachrony of the verbs of volition ai and beh in Southern Min
(SM). The data include historical SM texts (16th-19th century), folk songs in the late 19th to …

Sin1 先as a function word in contemporary Cantonese encodes a number of grammatical
and pragmatic meanings. As its most prominent feature in syntax, it predominantly occurs in …

If we pay a little attention to the daily conversations around, we may get an impression that
the frequency of the occurrence of jiu is much higher than that of cai. In Liu's (1993) study …

Prosody in tonal languages such as Mandarin provides a fascinating test on the universal
character and attributes of prosody in natural language. Prosodic variation is a key element …