The Typology of Motion Events: An Empirical Study of Chinese Dialects
Carine Yuk-man Yiu
This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wu, 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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Jahr:
2013
Verlag:
De Gruyter Mouton
Sprache:
english
Seiten:
405
ISBN 10:
3110335778
ISBN 13:
9783110335774
Serien:
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 53
Datei:
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english, 2013