TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chan, Marjorie K. M. 1

Cantonese Opera and the Growth and Spread of Vernacular Written Cantonese in the Twentieth Century

Chen, Imogen 19

Intensity Difference in L2 Classroom Instruction and Grammatical Development: A Case Study on Mandarin Chinese

Drewry, Eric 37

Testing a Model of the Adult Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Wh-words

Emonts, Michael, Stephanie Seneff, and Mitch Peabody 56

The Need for Interactivity in Chinese Language Teaching Software

Gao, Liwei and Rong Yuan 66

Linguistic Construction of Modernity in Computer-Mediated Communication

Gao, Man 84

Preposition Incorporation in Mandarin

Gao, Qian 104

Agreement Features and the Chinese Classifier System

Hsieh, Jia-Ling and Ching-Yi Chen 128

Teaching Strategy Use in Chinese Refusals: A Comparison of Email and Telephone Communication

Hu, Jianhua and Dingxu Shi 146

Presupposition and Assertion in the Use of –Guo

Jiang, Yan 152

Explicature and Explicating: Free or Linguistically Directed Enrichment

Kuong, Io-Kei Joaquim 161

Sentence Topic and Finiteness in Mandarin Chinese: Their Effects on Clause Structure

Lee, Ok Joo 178

Pitch Range in Mandarin: A Simultaneous Cue for Narrow Focus and Question

Li, Bin and Lijuan Zhang 195

Intrasentential Code-Switching Between Chinese and English

Li, Chao 203

On “Possessor Raising” in Mandarin Chinese

Li, Fangfang 219

An Acoustic Study on Feminine Accent (女国音) in the Beijing Dialect

Li, Kening 225

Topic-Comment Structure in Spoken Chinese Revisited

Li, Wei-shan 242

Second Language Acquisition of the Resultative Verb Compounds in

Mandarin Chinese

Li, Xiao 259

Lexical Properties and Chinese Resultative Compounds

Li, Yan 277

On the Distribution of NegPs in Mandarin Chinese

Liu, Haiyong 293

The Initial State and UG Access in Second Language Acquisition

Liu, Lunxin 308

上犹社溪方言的特殊声调字研究

Lu, Bingfu and Xiaozhou Wu 318

A Revisit to the Placement of Chinese Adverbials

Ma, Lili 336

Semantic Properties of Chinese Aspectual Verbs

Ming, Tao 354

A Corpus-Based Study of the Order of Demonstratives and Relative Clauses in Mandarin Chinese

Sanders, Robert and Satoshi Uehara 369

Thinking about Xiǎng in Taiwan: Some Native-Speaker Opinions

Tien, Yi Min, Mary Louis Kean, Ovid J. L. Tzeng, and Daisy L. Hung 386

The Semantics of Chinese Noun-Classifier Pairs

Wang, Jenny 404

Quasi Suffixes in Mandarin Chinese

Wee, Lian Hee 422

Elision and Tone Sandhi in the Tianjin Dialect

Wu, Xiaoqi 432

Markedness, Features of Chinese Word Order, and Its Acquisition

Xu, Heping 441

试论汉语中两种不同的认知能愿动词

Xu, Yi 446

Counting and Measuring of Eventualities in Chinese and English

Xu, Zheng 463

On the Formation of Adjective-Noun Combinations in Mandarin Chinese

Yan, Jing 483

“What Things Are Correct”---Written Variables in a Cantonese Internet Community

Yan, Yaoliang 495

Syntactic Properties of Yu as the Outcome of Grammaticalization

Yang, Xiaolu and Dan Xiao 513

The BA Construction in Early Syntactic Development of Mandarin: A Case Study

Yuan, Rong, Liwei Gao, and Zhenlin Qiao 529

A Probe into CALL Development and Its Potential Use in Chinese Instruction at DLI

Wang, Lianqing 536

Classifiers or Measure Words? --An Issue in Textbook Compiling

Zhang, Lan 544

The Two Orders of Chinese Relative Clauses Re-examined