THE PAPER ANALYZES, FROM THE GENERAL POINT OF VIEW OF TRANSFORMATIONAL THEORY, THE GRAMMAR OF INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES IN AMERICAN ENGLISH AND MANDARIN CHINESE. SEVERAL TYPES OF QUESTIONS ARE RECOGNIZED IN EACH. BOTH LANGUAGES HAVE INTERROGATIVE-WORD QUESTIONS, DISJUNCTIVE QUESTIONS, TAG QUESTIONS, AND NEGATIVE QUESTIONS. "YES-NO"…

Compiled here for the first time in Yale romanization are 2,000 common Chinese sayings, idioms, proverbs, and other figures of speech. The entries are arranged in two series: once in alphabetic order according to the Yale romanization and then again by the stroke-count of the Chinese characters. The romanized entries are accompanied by several…

One of the objectives of this paper is to point out that the essential function of Chinese characters for the reader of Japanese is that of mediating, or evoking the sounds of Japanese directly, and the meanings secondarily, as the meanings are derived from the sounds. The author suggests that this is what happens, despite the fact that Chinese…

The author discusses his concept of "tonal spelling" for Chinese. This system spells out the patterns for the tone classes without marking their tone values; the same spelling formation spells out the same tone class and makes tonal orthography a "regular, striking, neat and clean-shaven script." Following a discussion of the…

From the sixth to the eighth century A.D., Japan was the recipient of massive cultural infusions from China. This acceptance of the Chinese pattern included, and to a great extent was based on, the acceptance of the Chinese language. The Chinese writing system was applied to Japanese because there was no other model to follow and in spite of the…

The relative merits of Chinese characters as a writing system are discussed as an introduction to the proceedings of the CLTA panel on Chinese characters. (KM)

In this interview, Alice Fong Yu discusses her background, what it was like to teach at the Commodore Elementary School in San Francisco Chinatown, and her views on busing, bilingual education, and the Bakke Case. (A M)

This description of the school system in contemporary China includes the uses of audiovisual aids at levels ranging from pre-kindergarten to the university. (STS)

Describes, via a dialogic format, background and current practices in teaching and assessing writing in secondary schools in the People's Republic of China, as well as issues involved in assessing student writing on the current national university examinations. Suggests comparisons with similar issues and practices in the United States. (SR)

Notes that in China shaped poetry is closely linked with palindromes. Traces the history of the genre and presents examples of such poetry in translation. Offers remarks on the techniques of "deciphering" patterned poems. (FL)

Presents a structural explanation for meaning differences associated with the position of adverbial modifiers with respect to the verb in Mandarian. Argues that the relevant factor is one of modifier scope. Temporal, result, and generic interpretations associated with some postverbal modification structures are explained on the basis of modifier…

Eighty-six male and forty-five female 12th grade Chinese students took the Standard Educational Intelligence Test which contains measure of risk-taking and test-wiseness. (Editor)

A bibliographical review of works on Chinese scholarship and books is presented. Selected documents relating to the pursuit of scholarship, the production (including printing), distribution and conservation of books, classification and cataloging and libraries are briefly annotated. Bibliographies and general works are also mentioned. (74…