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Language Contact and Change in Chinese / ed. by Guangshun Cao, Hsiao-jung Yu.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Chinese Linguistics [TCL] ; 1Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (IX, 255 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110610062
  • 9783110610246
  • 9783110612981
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 495.12 23
LOC classification:
  • PL1281 .H3513 2019eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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