cahiers de linguistique - asie orientale vol . 27 , n2 ( 1998 ) clao - cahiers de linguistique - asie orientale . an international journal on the languages and linguistics of east asia published by the " centre de recherches linguistiques sur l ' asie orientale " editors : alain lucas , waltraud paul vol . 27 , n2 ( 1998 ) marie - claude paris , " focus operators and types of predication in mandarin " , pp . 139-159 franoise bottero , " la vision de l ' criture de xu shen partir de sa prsentation des liushu " , pp . 161-191 ma beijia , " jieci ' zhu ' de chansheng " ( in chinese ) pp . 193-200 yu hsiao - jung & cao guangshun , " liu du ji jing zhong de fuci 'd ou ' " ( in chinese ) pp . 201-209 lee hun - tak thomas & wong colleen , cancorp - the hong kong cantonese child language corpus " , pp . 211-228 review article : redouane djamouri , franoise bottero ( smantisme et classification dans l ' criture chinoise ) , pp . 229-247 book review : laurent sagart tor ulving ( dictionary of old and middle chinese ) pp . 249-254 dissertations : ksenia antonian ( in english ) " rezul ' tativnye konstrukcii v sovremennom kitajskom jazyke : processy grammatikalizacii i leksikallizacii " ( resultative verb compounds in mandarin chinese : grammaticalization and lexicalization ) pp . 255-265 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - published by the " centre de recherches linguistiques sur l ' asie orientale ( crlao ) , paris , france inquiries to : cahiers - lao @ ehess . fr