【專題演講】 講題：Stability and variability in Chinese syntax 講者：黃宣範 名譽教授（台灣大學語言學研究所） 時間：2016年4月19日(二)14:00-16:00 地點：中正大學文學院144國際會議廳 Abstract: When we examine how narrators verbalize the scenes in the Chinese Pear narratives, we are struck by considerable inter speaker variation in their verbalizations. In each of the scenes examined, there is usually one or at most two favored verbalizations, which are the preferred states of the system for expressing objects, event, experiences and relations, and they may be thought of as attractors in the behavior space in terms of complexity theory (Kauffman 1995; Beckner 2010). These attractors exert a force on the Chinese grammatical system, and serve as models for new instances of grammaticalization. The attractor forms that exist currently are stabilized, but there is almost always variability around the stabilities. Since the potential for language change lies in this variability (Bybee 2001; Labov 2001; Croft 2000, 2010; Pintzuk 2003; Ohala 2003), variability in the data is not noise to be discarded but is part of the behavior of the system, and to be expected around stability. If we smooth away variability, we lose the very information that may shed light on emergence of new grammatical forms. And that is why it is important to investigates in grammatical research not just the stabilized patterns, but also the wide ranging, dynamic and systematic variability within and across individuals. --

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