Stephen Matthews
Books:
Yip, Virginia & Stephen Matthews. In prep. Bilingual Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Matthews, Stephen & Virginia Yip. 2011. Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. [book website]
Yip, Virginia & Stephen Matthews. 2007. The Bilingual Child: Early Development and Language Contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [book website]
[Winner of the LSA Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2009]Review of Yip & Matthews (2007) include the following:
- Bybell, Anthony. 2007. A Twist on Multiple Language Acquisition (Amazon.com)
- Francis, Norbert. 2008. Journal of Child Language 35. 917-922.
- Myers-Scotton, Carol. 2008. Journal of Linguistics 44. 791-796.
- Logan-Terry, Aubrey. 2009. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 31. 507-508.
Yip, Virginia & Stephen Matthews. 2000. Intermediate Cantonese: a Grammar and Workbook. London: Routledge. (on-line review by Blaine Erickson)
Yip, Virginia & Stephen Matthews. 1999. Basic Cantonese: a Grammar and Workbook. London: Routledge.
Matthews, Stephen (ed.). 1998. Studies in Cantonese Linguistics. Hong Kong: Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.
Comrie, Bernard, Stephen Matthews & Maria Polinsky (consulting editors). 1996. The Atlas of Languages. New York: Facts on File, and London: Bloomsbury.
- Dutch version edited by Jeroen Wiedenhof: De grote taalatlas. Amsterdam: De Schuyt & Co., 1998;
- Japanese version edited by Fusa Katada: Sekai gengo bunka zukan: sekai no gengo no kigen to denpa. Tokyo: Tooyoo Shorin, 1999;
- Revised English edition: New York: Facts on File, 2003;
- French version based on revised edition: Atlas des langues, Paris: Editions Acropole, 2004;
- Czech version: Atlas Jazyků, Prague: Metafora, 2007;
Matthews, Stephen & Virginia Yip. 1994. Cantonese: a comprehensive grammar. London: Routledge.
Japanese edition by Eiichi Chishima & Shin Kataoka. 2000. Tokyo: Toho Shoten.Reviews of Matthews & Yip (1994) include the following:
- Cheung, Hung-Nin Samuel. 1996. International Review of Chinese Linguistics 1. 129-133.
- Peyraube, Alain. 1996. International Review of Chinese Linguistics 1. 126-128. [in French]
- Baker, Hugh. 1996. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 60. 182-184.
- Bruche-Schulz, Gisela. 1996. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 25. 137-146.
- Wiedenhof, Jeroen. 1996. Glot International 2. 19.
- Chan, Marjorie. 1998. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 33. 97-107. (on-line review by Marjorie Chan)
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Yip & Matthews 2007 |
Comrie et al. (eds.) 2003 |
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Papers:
Xu, Huiling & Stephen Matthews. 2011, in production. On the polyfunctionality and grammaticalization of the morpheme kai in the Chaozhou dialect. In Yap Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona (eds), Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and Typological Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Yip, V. and S. Matthews. 2010. Promoting Bilingualism Research in Hong Kong and East Asia : The Childhood Bilinguailsm Research Center. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 38. 2: 396-403.
Yip, V. and S. Matthews. 2010. The acquisition of Chinese in bilingual and multilingual contexts. International Journal of Bilingualism 14. 1: 127-146.
Wu, Yicheng & Stephen Matthews. 2010. How different are expletive and referential pronouns? A parsing perspective. Lingua 120. 1805-1820.
Yap, Foong Ha, Patrick Chun-Kau Chu, Emily Sze-Man Yiu, Stella Fay Wong, Stella Wing-Man Kwan, Stephen Matthews, Li-Hai Tan, Ping Li & Yasuhiro Shirai. 2009. Aspectual asymmetries in the mental representation of events: Role of lexical and grammatical aspect. Memory & Cognition 37. 587-595.
Matthews, S. and V. Yip. 2009. Contact-induced grammaticalization: evidence from bilingual acquisition. Studies in Language 33:2, 366-395
Yap, Foong Ha & Stephen Matthews. 2008. The development of East Asian nominalizers in East Asian and Tibeto-Burman languages. In Maria Jose Lopez-Couso and Elena Seone (eds.), in collaboration with Teresa Fanago. Rethinking Grammaticalization in the Twenty-First Century. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Yip, Virginia & Stephen Matthews. 2007. Relative Clauses in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 29. 277-300.
Xu, Huiling & Stephen Matthews. 2007. Cong dongci dao ziju jiegou biaoji: Chaozhou fangyan he Taiwan Minnan hua dongci shuo he kan de xuhua guocheng [The grammaticalization of the verbs ‘say’ and ‘see’ in the Chaozhou dialect and Taiwanese Southern Min]. Zhongguo Yuwen Yanjiu [Studies in Chinese Linguistics]. 23: 61-72. T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre, Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Yap, Foong Ha, Yumi Inoue, Yasuhiro Shirai, Stephen Matthews, Ying Wai Wong & Yi Heng Chan. 2006. Aspectual asymmetries in Japanese: Evidence from a reaction time study. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, volume 14. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information. 113-124.
Francis, Elaine J. & Stephen Matthews. 2006. Categoriality and object extraction in Cantonese serial verb constructions. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 24. 751-801.
Matthews, Stephen. 2006b. Cantonese grammar in areal perspective. In Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & R. M. W. Dixon (eds.), Grammars in Contact. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 220-236.
Matthews, Stephen. 2006a. On serial verbs in Cantonese. In Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & R. M. W. Dixon (eds.), Serial Verb Constructions: a Cross-linguistic Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 69-87.
Perry, Conrad, Man-Kit Kan, Stephen Matthews & Richard Kwok-Shing Wong. 2006. Syntactic ambiguity resolution and the prosodic foot: cross-language differences. Applied Psycholinguistics 27. 301-333.
Yip, Virginia & Stephen Matthews. 2005. Dual input and learnability: null objects in Cantonese-English bilingual children. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, ed. by James Cohen, Kara T. McAlister, Kellie Rostad and Jeff MacSwan. 2421-31. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Li, Michelle, Stephen Matthews and Geoff P. Smith. 2005. Pidgin English texts from the Chinese English Instructor. In Geoff P. Smith & Stephen Matthews (eds.), Chinese Pidgin English: Texts and Contexts. Special Issue of the Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol. 10, no (September 2005), 79-167.
Matthews, Stephen, Huiling Xu & Virginia Yip. 2005. Passive and unaccusative in the Jieyang dialect of Chaozhou. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 14, 267-298.
Francis, Elaine J. & Stephen Matthews. 2005. A multi-dimensional approach to the category 'verb' in Cantonese. Journal of Linguistics 41. 269-305.
Ansaldo, Umberto and Stephen Matthews. 2004. The origins of Macanese reduplication. In Genevieve Escure & Armin Schwegler (eds.). Creoles, Contact and Language Change: Linguistic and Social Implications. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1-19.
Yap, Foong Ha, Stephen Matthews & Kaoru Horie. 2004. From pronominalizer to pragmatic marker:
Implications for unidirectionality from a crosslinguistic perspective. In Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde & Harry
Perridon (eds.), Up and Down the Cline: The Nature of Grammaticalization. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 137-168.
Matthews, Stephen. 2003. Verb-fronting in French and Sinitic vernaculars: a comparative study inspired by Chris Corne. Te Reo: Joural of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 46. 3-17.
Bauer, Robert S. and Stephen Matthews. 2003. Cantonese. In Graham Thurgood & Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages. London: Rouledge. 146-155.
Matthews, Stephen & Virginia Yip. 2002. Relative clauses in early bilingual development: transfer and universals. In Anna Giacalone Ramat (ed.), Typology and Second Language Acquisition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 39-81.
Matthews, Stephen & Virginia Yip. 2001. Aspects of contemporary Cantonese grammar: the structure and stratification of relative clauses. In Hilary Chappell (ed.), Chinese Grammar: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 266-281.
Matthews, Stephen & Louisa Y. Y. Yeung. 2001. Processing motivations for topicalization in Cantonese. In K. Horie & S. Sato (eds.), Cognitive-functional Linguistics in an East Asian Context. Tokyo: Kurosio. 81-102.
Ansaldo, Umberto & Stephen Matthews. 2001. Typical creoles and simple languages: the case of Sinitic. Linguistic Typology 5. 311-325.
Yip, Virginia & Stephen Matthews. 2000. Syntactic Transfer in a Cantonese-English Bilingual Child. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 3:3. 193-208.
Matthews, Stephen. 1999. Y. R. Chao and Universal Chinese Grammar. In David Cram, Andrew Robert Linn & Elke Nowak (eds.), History of Linguistics 1996. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 217-224.
Ansaldo, Umberto & Stephen Matthews. 1999. The Min substrate and creolization in Baba Malay. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 27. 38-68.
Matthews, Stephen. 1998. Evidentiality and mirativity in Cantonese: wo3, wo4, wo5! Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics. Academia Sinica.
Matthews, Stephen & Patrizia Pacioni. 1997. Specificity and genericity in Cantonese and Mandarin. In Liejiong Xu (ed.), The Referential Properties of Cantonese Noun Phrases. Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. 45-59.
Yip, Virginia & Stephen Matthews. 1992. Tough movement in Chinese/Engllish interlanguage: contrastive analysis and learnability. In Thomas Lee (ed.), Research on Chinese Linguistics in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.
B.A. (Cantab), M.A., Ph.D. (Southern Calif.)
Associate Professor
School of Humanities (Linguistics)
M124, Main Building,
The University of Hong Kong,
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.
Tel: 2859-2752 Fax: 2546-4943
Email: matthews at hku dot hk
Associate Professor
School of Humanities (Linguistics)
M124, Main Building,
The University of Hong Kong,
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.
Tel: 2859-2752 Fax: 2546-4943
Email: matthews at hku dot hk
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