[Lingtyp] Fwd: history of linguistics: phonological word

[Randy J. LaPolla]

Hi All,
Just to add some info to Liu Danqing (Danny)’s modest self-introduction for those who don’t know of him:
He is Director of the Institute of Linguistics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Chief editor of Zhongguo Yuwen (Studies of the Chinese Language), the top linguistics journal of China, 
and a pioneer in the development of linguistic typology in China, not only in his own work and those of his students, but also in organising the now annual International Symposium on Linguistic Typology, the 4th to be held at People’s University in Beijing in early July. Anna Siewierska had been working with him to try to popularise typology in China. I’ll attach a photo of the three of us and two of Danny’s students at the ALT conference at Hong Kong University in 2011.

I’m very happy he has been able to to get through the Great Firewall and join LingTyp! 

Randy
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Professor of Linguistics, with courtesy appointment in Chinese, School of Humanities 
Nanyang Technological University
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Most recent books:
The Sino-Tibetan Languages, 2nd Edition (2017)
https://www.routledge.com/The-Sino-Tibetan-Languages-2nd-Edition/LaPolla-Thurgood/p/book/9781138783324 <https://www.routledge.com/The-Sino-Tibetan-Languages-2nd-Edition/LaPolla-Thurgood/p/book/9781138783324>
Sino-Tibetan Linguistics (2018)
https://www.routledge.com/Sino-Tibetan-Linguistics/LaPolla/p/book/9780415577397 <https://www.routledge.com/Sino-Tibetan-Linguistics/LaPolla/p/book/9780415577397>




在 2019年1月23日，下午3:15，LIU Danqing <liudanq at yahoo.com <mailto:liudanq at yahoo.com>> 写道：

> Dear All:
> 
>     I am LIU Danqing from China. You can call me Danny. Prof. Randy LaPolla was a member of the supervising group for my Ph.D study in City University of Hong Kong. I am glad to join you in discussions here. 
> 
>    As I know, We have concepts like phonological word rather late in Chinese linguistic field (Mainland), but some dialect researchers might have created a term similar to this independently in 1986. In a frequently-cited Chinese paper on tone sandhi published in Yuyan Yanjiu (Linguistics Study） authored by Wutai, a pseudonym for 5 linguists, the authors proposed a new term 'yuyin ci'(phonetic word) to account for tone sandhi.  At that time, most of Chinese linguists haven't distinguished between phonetics and phonology, both referred to as yuyinxue (phonetics). After this paper, yuyin ci gradually became a common term in Chinese linguistics. Nowadays, due to the influence from the West, yunlyu ci (prosodic word) is getting more and more popular among Chinese linguists, but yinxi ci (phonological word) seems to remain a less-mentioned term.
> 
> Best,
> 
>    Danny
> 
> On Sunday, January 20, 2019, 6:44:46 AM GMT+8, Adam James Ross Tallman <ajrtallman at utexas.edu <mailto:ajrtallman at utexas.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to trace the roots of the development of the concept of "phonological word". Does anyone know who first used this term? The earliest I can find is Dixon's (1977) grammar of Yidin. What about "prosodic word"?
> 
> I'm aware that the roots of the idea can be found much earlier than when the concept was first mentioned, but I'm interested in the implicit analogy between a morphosyntactic constituency and phonological constituency and how, when and why that entered linguistics.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> best,
> 
> Adam
> 
> -- 
> Adam J.R. Tallman
> Investigador del Museo de Etnografía y Folklore, la Paz
> 
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