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The Morphology of Chinese
This innovative study dispels mon belief that Chinese ‘doesn’t
have words’ but instead ‘has characters’. Jerome Packard’s book provides
prehensive 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
ponents, 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.
Jerome L. Packard is Professor of Chinese in the Departments of East Asian
Languages and Cultures and of Linguistics at the University of Illinois. He has
also taught Chinese and Linguistics at Cornell University and the University
of Pennsylvania, and has been a Fulbright Research Scholar in China. He is
the author of two previous books: A Linguistic Analysis of Aphasic Chinese
Speech () and New Approaches to Chinese Word Formation: Morphology,
phonology and the lexicon in modern and ancient Chinese ().
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The Morphology of Chinese
A Linguistic and Cognitive Approach
JEROME L. PACKARD
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