Explanatory Notes to Index II
索引 II 说明
Yifeng Wu 吴一丰

Abstract 摘要
The cumulative indexes of Journal of Chinese Linguistics (JCL) and Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series (JCLMS)　are in two parts: Index I: JCL Volumes 1~35 and JCLMS Numbers 1~22, which is organized by volume numbers and comprises citation and abstract information; Index II: Authors, Titles, Classified Subjects, comprises detailed information, combining both JCL and JCLMS entries, for these categories. Index I acts as a microcosm of the contents of JCL and JCLMS, while Index II serves the users’ various research interests, that is, it aims to help the user to locate a title, an author, or a subject area with designation information, such as the volume and issue number. Index I, on the other hand, provides detailed abstracts/introductions in order to satisfy the user’s curiosity about the particular perspective of articles in JCL and JCLMS.

Here we will explain Index II: Titles, Authors, and Classified Subjects, with examples, in the following order: scope, arrangement, format, relationship to Index I, source authority, and special treatments. Finally we have provided example cases to show how to use Index II with Index I. Hopefully, any questions about how to use the indexes are answered along the way.

Scope:
Index II comprises three indexes, namely, Titles, Authors (with citations), and Classified Subjects (with six subcategories of Topics, Languages, Names of Persons, Organizations, Publications, and Meetings). These are the basis for searching and browsing; in other words, one can search a title, an author’s last names, or a classified subject keyword in these indexes, and then refer to Index I: JCL Volumes 1~35 and JCLMS Numbers 1~22 according to volume/number designation information, to search for abstracts and more.

Arrangement:
Index II is arranged in the order of Titles, Authors, and Classified Subjects. Classified Subjects is subdivided into six categories for searching Topics, Languages, Names of Persons, Organizations, Publications, and Meetings. Within each index, the entries are listed in an alphabetical order. Please refer to the “Table of Contents” and “Index II List of Titles, Authors, Classified Subjects with Pagination” for the detailed page arrangement.

Format:
Format of Titles, Authors, or Classified Subjects is specified in following examples, and book/periodical titles are not italicized for all indexes.

Titles (alphabetically arranged without “a” “an” “the” as a beginning word):
Alveolarization in Cantonese: a case of lexical diffusion (7.1, article 10, Bauer) = [译]: 粤语齿龈化: 词汇扩散案例研究 (7.1, 文章 10, Bauer包睿舜)
Ambiguity in context-induced semantic changes: the history of the Chinese ba construction (mono 10, article 12, Sun) = [译]：语境导致歧义的语义变化：汉语把字结构的历史 (专著系列, 10, 文章12, 孙)

Authors (alphabetically arranged by the first letters of authors’ last names as they have appeared in their articles, including articles by multiple authors):
Bauer, Robert S. 1996. In memoriam: Søren Christian Egerod (1923-1995). Journal of Chinese Linguistics. 24.1, 192-193. = 包睿舜. 1996. [译]：悼念: 易家乐 (1923-1995). 中国语言学报. 24卷1期, 192-193.
Bauer , Robert S. 包睿舜
Cheung, Kwan-hin & Bauer, Robert S.. 2002. The Representation of Cantonese with Chinese Character. Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series. No.18. Berkeley, California: Project on Linguistic Analysis. = 张群显 & 包睿舜. 2002. 以汉字写粤语. 中国语言学报专著系列, 18. 美国加州伯克莱: 语言学分析中心.
Bauer, Robert S. 2006. The stratification of English loanwords in Cantonese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics. 34.2, 172-191. = 包睿舜. 2006. 粤语中英语借词的层次. 中国语言学报. 34卷2期, 172-191.

Classified Subjects: In this category, subject keywords have been classified into six different subcategories to identify the topic or main content of an article. For instance, a keyword for a name of a person suggests that an article has discussed the person and his writing(s); a keyword for an organization indicates that an article is devoted to discussing this organization; a keyword for a publication means that an article is a review article or a contribution discussing a published work. In the same way, keywords are related to topics, languages, and meetings.

Search Topics
Accents and accentuation
口音及重音度
12.2, article 4, Chen

Search Languages
Austroasiatic languages
南亚语言
1.1, article 2, Li
11.1, article 5, Norman
31.1, article 1, Schuessler
mono 8, article 5, Pan
mono 8, article 4, Li

Search Names of Persons
Wang, William S.-Y.
王士元
14.2, article 4, Lien
28.1, article 6, Lee

Search Organizations
CRLAO (Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale)--France--Paris
东亚语言研究中心--法国--巴黎
2.3, article 8, Alleton (Announcement)

Search Publications
Cahiers de linguistique asie orientales
东亚语言学报
6.2, article 13, (Announcement)
Journal of Chinese linguistics – Book reviews
中国语言学报--书评
1.1, article 8, Li (Chao)
1.2, article 6, Chan (Alleton)
Search Meetings
First Hong Kong conference on language and society
香港第一届语言及社会学术会议
16.1, article 11, (Conference report)

Relationship between Index II and Index I:
Index II is like the index(es) at the end of a book while Index I is like a condensed version of JCL and JCLMS (see the chart below). So, in Index II one can find a title, an author’s name, or a subject keyword with volume designation information, and then one can go to Index I to find out more information about a title, an author’s writings, or a subject area.

CUMULATIVE INDEXES
JOURNAL OF CHINESE LINGUISTICS (JCL) VOLUMES 1-35 (1973~2007)
JCL MONOGRAPH SERIES (JCLMS) NUMBERS 1-22 (1982~2007)

INDEX I
1. JCL Volumes 1-35
2. JCLMS Numbers 1-22

INDEX II (JCL and JCLMS combined)
3. Titles
4. Authors (with citations)
5. Classified Subjects
5.1. Topics
5.2. Languages
5.3. Names of Persons
5.4. Organizations
5.5. Publications
5.6. Meetings

Source Authority:
Index II: 3. Titles was generated according to the titles in the published contents of of JCL and JCLMS; some Chinese titles were translated by the compiler.
Index II: 4. Authors was generated according to the names and information appearing in the published contents of JCL and JCLMS or other official publications. Only one spelling kind of an author is used.
Index II: 5. Classified Subjects includes six categories, namely: Topics, Languages, Names of Persons, Organizations, Publications, and Meetings. The subject keywords and keyword-strings, based on the American Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and authors’ keywords in their abstracts or articles, were first generated from a close reading of each abstract/entry in JCL and JCLMS, with a total of about 770 entries; if any uncertainties arose, further reading of the article was conducted. In general, three to six keywords were generated for each article/entry. As a result, more than 3,500 keywords have thus been generated with their Chinese translations, which were further checked against 英汉语言学词汇 An English-Chinese Lexicon of Linguistics. In order to have these subject keywords for easy use, we next classified the 3,500 plus subject keywords and keyword-strings into the six categories mentioned above. Since the compiler is not an expert in all linguistic fields, misunderstanding and misinterpretation may be unavoidable in this edition. However, we earnestly solicit the help of JCL readers to send us their corrections and suggestions, so that later versions of this section can be improved and its usefulness enhanced.

Special Treatments:
1) Book/Periodical Titles: In all indexes, book/periodical titles are not italicized.
2) Chinese Character: In Index II: 3. Titles, 4. Authors, 5. Classified Subjects, simplified Chinese characters are used.
3) Chinese Translation:
Index II 3. Titles: If no Chinese titles were provided for a publication then Chinese translation title has been provided for selected entries which meanings are straight forward (see Examples of Special Treatments—Titles below).
Index II 4. Authors: The Chinese names of authors are provided according to the JCL publications and occasionally to other published works (see Examples of Special Treatments —Authors below).
Index II 5. Classified Subjects: The Chinese subject keywords are translated and provided for reference only (see Examples of Special Treatments —Classified Subjects below).
4) Correspondence of JCL Volumes and JCLMS numbers with Publication Years: on each subtitle page (see Table of Contents), the following chart can be found for easy reference when a reader has a designation information of a JCL and JCLMS entry from Index II, such as 1.1, article 8, Li, which is published in 1973:

JCL Vol. 卷别 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35
JCL year 年份73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
JCLMS No.卷号 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
JCLMS year 年份 82 85 91 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 97 97 99 99 99 01 01 02 03 03 04 07
5) Designation: The Titles and Classified Subjects Indexes include designation information such as 10.1, article 2, Sobelman; here 10.1 means volume 10, number 1; “article” means a published item that can be an article, a discussion, a review article, a report, a eulogy, a bibliography, or an announcement.
6) Phonetic Symbol: although we would like to eliminate all erroneous input of phonetic symbols, readers may still find some incorrect symbols due to unrecognized fonts; we request that readers please kindly write to the editorial office of Journal of Chinese Linguistics and bring any needed corrections to our attention.
7) Subject Keyword Classification: In Index II 5. Classified Subjects, special keywords found in author(s) article, such as BA construction, Le, or Dak, are used as subject keywords, in order to reflect some topics (5.1. Topics). Since various languages and dialects are discussed in JCL and JCLMS, an independent category is provided as for language subject keywords (5.2. Languages). If a person is discussed in depth in an article, the name is selected as a subject keyword (5.3. Names of Persons). According to the same principle, if an organization is the main topic of an article, its name will be selected as a subject keyword (5.4. Organizations). If a publication is reviewed and discussed in an article, it will be selected as a subject keyword. The types of JCL and JCLMS article, such as book review, report, memoriam/eulogy, etc., are classified under the subject keywords Journal of Chinese Linguistics-- (5.5. Publications), Name of conferences and workshops are grouped under topics in an independent category (5.6. Meetings) (see Example 4 in Examples of Special Treatments —Classified Subjects).
8) Subject Keyword for Cross References: If an article touched on two or more topics, then two or three subject keywords have been assigned, for examples:
Phonology
Grammar, comparative and general--Phonology
Cantonese dialects—Phonology
… and more
So when the reader searches a term they may want to search for all the related categories. (see example 3 in Example of Special Cases—Classified Subjects).
9) Subject Keyword for Article Types: JCL and JCLMS articles are written in different formats. As for complete lists of discussions, book reviews, bibliographies, reports, memoriam/eulogies, announcements, and errata, etc., readers should please look up the term Journal of Chinese Linguistics in the section of Index II 5. Classified Subjects 5.5. Publications (see example 5 in Example of Special Treatments—Classified Subjects) .
10) Title: The reader should note that the indefinite and definite articles “a”, “an” and “the” at the beginning of titles in Index II: 3. Titles have been eliminated for sorting purposes.
11) Book Review: Section 5.3. Names of Persons includes entries of authors of books that have been reviewed in JCL; that is, if a book has been reviewed this is indicated by (Review) which follows the surname of the book reviewer. Section 5.5 Publications includes the titles of books that have been reviewed in JCL, and again this is indicated in the entry by (Review) which follows the surname of the reviewer. (see example 6 in Example of Special Treatments—Classified Subjects).

Examples of Special Treatments:
Examples of Special Treatments--Titles
Examples of Special Treatments—Authors
Examples of Special Treatments – Classified Subjects

Cases for Using Index II with Index I:
After one has read the above explanations, the reader may now know how to use Index II: Titles, Authors, Classified Subjects. The following cases can further show how to use Index II with Index I: JCL Volumes 1~35 and JCLMS Numbers 1~22 (Case 1-4).

Case 1: From Index II: 3. Titles to Index I
Case 2: From Index II: 4. Authors to Index I