TY - BOOK AU - Cao,Guangshun AU - Chen,Dandan AU - Hu,Chirui AU - Jiang,Lansheng AU - Li,Yunbing AU - Yang,Yonglong AU - Yu,Hsiao-jung AU - Zhao,Changcai AU - Zhu,Guanming AU - Zu,Shengli TI - Language Contact and Change in Chinese T2 - Trends in Chinese Linguistics [TCL] , SN - 9783110610062 AV - PL1281 .H3513 2019eb U1 - 495.12 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - Chinese language KW - Foreign elements KW - Foreign words and phrases KW - China KW - Sprachkontakt KW - Syntax KW - Zweitspracherwerb KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Language contact in China, Syntactic studies, Contact-induced changes, Second language acquisition N1 - Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Contents --; List of Abbreviations --; Theory and fact – A study of the translated Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period from the perspective of language contact --; On the origin of the Chinese reflexive ziji from the perspective of the Medieval Chinese Buddhist scriptures --; The origin and development of negative exclusive particles in the Chinese language --; The postpositions suo 所 and bian 边 in translated Chinese Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period --; Variant reduplication and four-character state adjectives in Yuan Zaju --; The correlation between the Chinese purpose construction “VP + qu (去, ‘go’)” and SOV languages --; On the Han’er Yanyu of the Yuan Dynasty --; A study of the special syntactic features in Yuan baihua --; On the special syntactic features in the vernacular imperial edicts of the early Ming Dynasty (1368–1424) --; The influence of language contact on word order of some minority languages in Southern China --; Second language acquisition and contactinduced language change in the history of the Chinese language --; Postscript --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The book sheds light on the fascinating evolution of contact-induced grammatical features in Chinese syntax. For more than two thousand years, Chinese has been in large scale language contact with languages such as Sanskrit, Mongolian, and Manchurian. Originally published in Chinese in renowned academic journals, the contributions are made available for the first time to the English speaking world UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612981 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110612981 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110612981/original ER -