Mary S. Erbaugh

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mary S. Erbaugh is involved.

Journal

Chinese Language and Discourse

An International and Interdisciplinary Journal

Edited by Xiaoting Li, K.K. Luke, Hongyin Tao and Li Wei

ISSN 1877-7031 | E‑ISSN 1877‑8798

Articles (4) | Order by:

Erbaugh, Mary S. 2019 How the Chinese language encourages the paradigm shift toward discourse in linguistics: Pressure from ‘the three zeros’ Chinese Language and Discourse 10:1, pp. 84–112 | Article

The Chinese language has encouraged the paradigm shift in linguistics away from Chomsky-style sentence-internal rules toward usage-based discourse. Analysts have debated two possibilities: is Chinese an allegedly ‘inferior’ and ambiguous language because it rests on the ‘three zeros’: zero… read more

Erbaugh, Mary S. 2013 Classifier choices in discourse across the seven main Chinese dialects Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.), pp. 101–126 | Article

Discourse activates classifiers. No classifier, either general or sortal (e.g. CLF:elongated 條 tiao), appears with 44% of Mandarin nouns in descriptions of Chafe’s Pear Stories film (Shanghai Wu 44%, Cantonese 37%). Classifiers only appear for highlighting. General classifiers dominate (53%… read more

Erbaugh, Mary S. 1987 Psycholinguistic evidence for foregrounding and backgrounding Coherence and Grounding in Discourse: Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984, Tomlin, Russell S., pp. 109–130 | Article

Erbaugh, Mary S. 1986 Taking Stock: The Development of Chinese Noun Classifiers Historically and in Young Children Noun Classes and Categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983, Craig, Colette G. (ed.), pp. 399–436 | Article