Linguistic Interfaces in East-Asian Languages: A Festschrift in Honor of Yoshihisa Kitagawa

This book contains new research essays of linguistic interface studies in or related to East Asian languages. Written by 14 colleagues or former students of Yoshihisa Kitagawa, it is also a book paying tribute to his decades of scholarships on linguistic interface studies. The chapters therein range from interface studies in syntax and other linguistic areas such as morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition, language evolution, and language faculty science. The languages under discussion are mainly East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, but also include Jordanian Arabic and Spanish, under comparative studies with respect to East Asian languages. The book appeals to both seasoned and novice researchers in linguistics, East Asian languages, and modern languages.

Chapters ＂Bare Quotatives as Embedded SpeechActs＂, ＂Re: The Interpretive Functions of the So-Called Japanese Topic Marker Wa＂ and ＂Focus Inside: Evidence from Spanish and Chinese＂ are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Jen Ting is Professor of English and Linguistics at the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. Drawing on both cross-linguistic and experimental data of syntax and morphology, she has published in journals such as Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, Linguistics, The Linguistic Review, among others. Of various academic services, she served as Editor-in-Chief for the THCI journal Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, as Executive Committee Member of Linguistic Society of Taiwan (2010-2011), and as Executive Committee Member of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (2013-2015).

Yu-Yin Hsuis Assistant Professor of Chinese linguistics at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests have been on syntactic interfaces of information structure, focus prosody, technology and Chinese language education, and natural language processing. She has served as Reviewer for journals such as Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Phonetics, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Lingua, Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, and Lingua Sinica.