Daming Xu

List of John Benjamins publications in which Daming Xu is involved.

Book series

Topics in Address Research

Edited by Horst J. Simon, Bettina Kluge, John Hajek, María Irene Moyna and Víctor Fernández-Mallat

ISSN 2405-9269

Articles (8) | Order by:

Zhang, Jingwei, Yanyong Zhang and Daming Xu 2019 A variationist approach to tone categorization in Cantonese Chinese Language and Discourse 10:1, pp. 1–16 | Article

This study examines tone mergers in Hong Kong Cantonese from the perspective of variationist sociolinguistics. It approaches the issue of whether Cantonese has six or nine tones by focusing on two ongoing tone mergers: (1) the merger of yin qu T3 and yang qu T6, and (2) the merger of lower yin ru… read more

Xu, Daming 2016 Speech community theory and the language / dialect debate Restructuring Chinese Speech Communities: Urbanization, language contact and identity formation, Berg, Marinus van den (ed.), pp. 8–31 | Article

Much research has been done addressing the issue of language and dialect and has attracted much interest in the Sinophone world. In this paper, the issue is approached from the perspective of Speech Community Theory (SCT) with discussion of the identification of Chinese varieties. There are… read more

Xu, Daming 2011 Review of Shi (2011): 历史比较语言学：方音比较与层次 Chinese Language and Discourse 2:2, pp. 295–300 | Review

Xu, Daming 2006 Nanjing language survey and the theory of speech community Language Planning and Varieties of (Modern Standard) Chinese, Zhou, Minglang (ed.), pp. 175–196 | Article

One of the central issues in the theory of speech community is whether speech community is a naturally-existing entity or a research construct without any restricted empirical basis. The issue is attacked here by way of a language survey. The survey was on language-choice behavior in public… read more

Xu, Daming 1993 Unexceptional Irregularities: Lexical Conditioning of Mandarin Nasal Deletion Diachronica 10:2, pp. 215–236 | Article

SUMMARY Using a sociolinguistic methodology the paper investigates the phonetic variation of Mandarin nasal deletion. The results of the analysis show that this variation is constrained by certain phonological, stylistic, social, and lexical factors. The lexical constraint points to the presence of… read more

Koerner, E.F.K. † and Daming Xu 1991 Publications received / Ouvrages reçus / Eingegangene schriften Historiographia Linguistica 18:2/3, pp. 425–458 | Publications received

Koerner, E.F.K. †, Daming Xu and Hans-Josef Niederehe 1991 Publications received / Ouvrages reçus / Eingegangene schriften Historiographia Linguistica 18:1, pp. 255–268 | Publications received

Koerner, E.F.K. †, Daming Xu and Hans-Josef Niederehe 1990 Publications received / Ouvrages reçus / Eingegangene schriften Historiographia Linguistica 17:3, pp. 441–478 | Publications received