Wei-Heng Chen Explained

Wei-Heng Chen is a Chinese linguist who is a professor of English and linguistics at Beijing Language and Culture University. Chen was the education consul of China at the Chinese Consulate-General, Los Angeles.[1] [2]

Work

Chen is noted for his work in linguistics,[3] [4] [5] particularly on the phonological consequences of grammaticalization and lexicalization. His doctoral dissertation at Peking University in 2004 was entitled, Northern Yu Dialects and Chinese Morphonology, and in 2011 he wrote Correlation between Syllable and Meaning and Between Phonology and Lexicalization, Grammaticalization and Subjectification: Towards a Theory on Morphophonology From Northern Yu Chinese Dialects.[6] [7]

Chen's work emphasizes the typological differences between monosyllabic languages (with an obligatory match between syllable and morpheme, with exceptions of loanwords or morphological derivations such as reduplicatives, diminutives and other morphological alternations) and non-monosyllabic languages (including disyllabic Austronesian languages, Semito-Hamitic languages with tri-consonantal word roots, Indo-European languages without an obligatory match between sound units (syllables) and meaning units (morpheme or word, despite an assumed majority of monosyllabic, reconstructed word stems and roots in the Proto-Indo-European hypothesis), a difference initiated by German linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (who put the Sino-Tibetan languages in sharp contrast to other languages in linguistic relativity.[8]

Works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Foreign Consular Offices in the United States . State.gov . 2017-02-23.
  2. Web site: Farren. Julie. Central Elementary School makes plea to keep Mandarin Chinese program teacher . Recordgazette.net . Banning, Cal.. June 4, 2015. 2017-02-23.
  3. Web site: Lamarre. Christine. The morphologization of verb suffixes in Northern Chinese. hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr. January 2, 2020.
  4. Christine Lamarre. The morphologization of verb suffixes in Northern Chinese. Cao Guangshun, Redouane Djamouri, Alain Peyrabue. Languages in Contact in North China. Historical and Synchronic Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2015, Collection des Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 2-910216-11-X. hal-01283726
  5. Web site: Languages and Linguistics . Ling.sinica.edu.tw . 2017-02-23.
  6. Web site: A Theoretical Study of Bianyin (Chinese Morphonology) in Northern Yu Dialects . Blcup.com . 2017-02-23.
  7. Web site: 世界汉语教学学会 . Shihan.org.cn . zh. 2011-06-01 . 2017-02-23.
  8. Web site: 陈卫恒. 大汉网络. www.blcu.edu.cn. zh. 2017-02-01. 2017-02-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202011907/http://www.blcu.edu.cn/art/2012/10/22/art_5733_1070268.html. dead.

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