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The Typology of Motion Events : An Empirical Study of Chinese Dialects / Carine Yuk-man Yiu.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; 53Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (405 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110335774
  • 9783110341768
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 495.17 23
LOC classification:
  • PL1250.D56 Y58 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of maps, figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Directional verbs in modern Cantonese A typological perspective -- Chapter 3. Directional verbs in modern Chinese dialects. A synchronic perspective -- Chapter 4. Directional verbs in early Chinese dialects A diachronic perspective -- Chapter 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1. Major chronological divisions of Chinese history -- Appendix 2. Samples of early dialectal materials -- Language index -- Subject index
Summary: This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wú, Hakka, Min and Cantonese. The author shows that these dialects form a continuum with some exhibiting more characteristics of a verb-framed language than the others. The phenomenon reflects the various stages of typological transformation and grammaticalization that the dialects have undergone.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of maps, figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Directional verbs in modern Cantonese A typological perspective -- Chapter 3. Directional verbs in modern Chinese dialects. A synchronic perspective -- Chapter 4. Directional verbs in early Chinese dialects A diachronic perspective -- Chapter 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1. Major chronological divisions of Chinese history -- Appendix 2. Samples of early dialectal materials -- Language index -- Subject index

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This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wú, Hakka, Min and Cantonese. The author shows that these dialects form a continuum with some exhibiting more characteristics of a verb-framed language than the others. The phenomenon reflects the various stages of typological transformation and grammaticalization that the dialects have undergone.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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