TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yuk-man Yiu,Carine
TI  - The Typology of Motion Events: An Empirical Study of Chinese Dialects 
T2  - Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ,
SN  - 9783110335774
AV  - PL1250.D56 Y58 2014eb
U1  - 495.17 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Chinese language
KW  - Dialects
KW  - Verb
KW  - Direction in language
KW  - Typology (Linguistics)
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Dialect Geography
KW  - History of Chinese Dialects
KW  - Typology of Motion events
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110341768
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110341768
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110341768/original
ER  -