미국의 중국언어학 연구 동향

Abstract

This paper introduces major academic programs for Chinese linguistics and their researchers in the U.S. It also discusses some of the most productively researched areas and the current research trends in Chinese linguistics in the U.S. by examining the papers recently presented at NACCL and those published in JCL and JC: LTA. It finds that syntax has been the most extensively researched area and that interdisciplinary researches are actively conducted between syntax/semantics and pedagogy. A considerable amount of research has also been carried out in such areas as phonology, dialectology, and historical linguistics. While a group of young linguists recently emerged in computational linguistics and corpus linguistics, more research still needs to done in various subfields of linguistics such as pragmatics, sociolinguistics, phonetics, and psycholinguistics. It is also found that the diverse academic and ethnic backgrounds of researchers might help facilitate interactions between Chinese linguists and linguists studying other languages. It is hoped that Chinese linguists in Korea play an important role in developing new methodologies for Chinese linguistics and providing a more fruitful source of data from the Chinese language for linguistic typological comparisons.