Preface

Articles
Toward a Global Grammar of Chinese
Hsin-I Hsieh

Modality Effects: Iconicity in Taiwan Sign Language
James H.-Y. Tai

整合口語研究及腦神經研究取向在字詞辨識研究的重要性
J. R. Lee, Daisy L. Hung

基本詞彙的預測與驗證：由分佈均勻度激發的研究構想
Chu-Ren Huang, Hua-Rui Zhang, Yu Shiwen

The Acquisition of Additive and Restrictive Focus in Cantonese
Thomas Hun-tak Lee

Universality and Scaling in the Statistical Data of Literary Works
Chin-Kun Hu, Wei-Cheng Kuo

漢語方言層次的特點
Pang-hsin Ting

Chinese Dialects in Time and Space
Chin-Chuan Cheng

閩南話“給予”的本字及其語法功能的來源
Tsu-Lin Mei

Notes on Favorlang, an Extinct Formosan Language
Paul Jen-kuei Li

Phonological and Lexical Strata in Taiwanese Southern Min
Chinfa Lien

論客家話
鄧曉華、李小芬

Long Tonal Strings in Hakka
Matthew Y. Chen

The Genetic Classification of Kam-Tai: A Method from Similarity Matrix to Phylogenetic Tree
Baoya Chen, Zehao Chen

Be's Obstruent Consonants in Kra-Dai Perspective
Weera Ostapirat

On the Zero Initials of the Menggu Ziyun 蒙古字韻
Zhongwei Shen