语言学文选-NO.1

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《语言学文选(第1辑)》：让世界了解中国语言学让中国语言学走向世界

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本文选由南开大学语言研究所所长石锋教授和美国威斯康辛大学张洪明教授主编，精选国内已发表的比较有影响的语言学领域论文，译为英语成集出版，旨在让国外语言学领域的研究者了解中国的语言学研究。

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插图：Abstract: Chinese word classes are prototype categories in nature. Ordinary people tend to group thewords, which share the family resemblances in distribution, into the same class. It is not feasible todivide the word classes by using the conjunctive and disjunctive relations between distributional fea-tures since we might not find a feature exclusively shared by all members of a class. There are typicalmembers and non-typical members in a certain word class. The typical members are the prototypes ofthe class and serve as the standards for the classification of the non-typical member. And the typicalmembers of the same class always share a bundle of distributive features, which could be taken as thebasis to divide and define word classes. Though the typical members of different classes have appar-ent disparities, the non-typical members of different classes only show slight and vague disparities,which has been the origin of the dilemma in Chinese word class dividing. At last, the paper presentsthe advantages of prototype theory in Chinese word class dividing and some other linguistic fields,such as the judgments on the identities of some syntactic constructions, and the classification of dia-lectal regions.

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石锋，Feng Shi is a professor andthe Director of Linguistics Instituteof Nankai University in China. Heis also currently serving as thechief editor of Journal of NankaiLinguistics as well as the presidentof Tianjin Linguistics Association.He received his M.A. in 1982 fromRenmin University in China and hisPh.D. in 1990 from Nankai University.He has been an adjunct professorof Beijing Language and CultureUniversity, a research fellow of CityUniversity of Hang Kong, and avisiting professor of Nagoya GakuinUniversity in Japan and ChineseSummer School of MiddleburyCollege in USA. His researchinterests include experimentalphonetics, language acquisition,language contact, and etc.张洪明，Hongming Zhang is a tenuredprofessor of University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his B.A. in1981 and his M.A. in 1984 in Chinesefrom Fudan University in China,and Ph.D. in 1992 in linguistics fromUniversity of California at San Diego.Besides teaching at UW-Madison,he has also taught at FudanUniversity, San Diego Mesa College,National University of Singapore,and adjunctively serves NankaiUniversity as Shiing-shen Chern ChairProfessor and Honorary Directorof Nankai Linguistics Institute.He was awarded the title ofChangjiang Scholar by the Ministryof Education of China in 2009. He is currently serving the InternationalAssociation of Chinese Linguisticsas its Executive Secretary. His maininterests lie in the interface study of syntax-phonology, phonology, dialectology, poetic prosody, Chinese philology, and etc.