Aspect of Chaozhou Grammar
Author : 許惠玲
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Chinese language
ISBN :
Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script
Author : David Holm
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004242163
Book Description
The traditional Zhuang script is a character script based on Chinese, adapted for the purpose of writing the Tai languages of southern China and northern Vietnam. Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script by David Holm, presents for the first time a systematic overview of such a script, based on a survey of traditional texts in 45 locations among the Zhuang and related peoples in Guangxi, Guizhou, eastern Yunnan, and northern Vietnam. Complete with 133 maps, it looks at patterns of geographic variation in relation to dialect, the domains of former native chieftaincies, the activities of ritual masters and Taoist priests, large-scale migrations, and the transplantation of garrisons of native troops. Internal evidence indicates the script has a history going back well before the Tang.
Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199571090
Book Description
R.M.W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students, the outcome of a lifetime's immersion in every aspect of language.
Sinophone Southeast Asia
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004473262
Book Description
This volume explores the diverse linguistic landscape of Southeast Asia’s Chinese communities. Based on archival research and previously unpublished linguistic fieldwork, it unearths a wide variety of language histories, linguistic practices, and trajectories of words. The localized and often marginalized voices we bring to the spotlight are quickly disappearing in the wake of standardization and homogenization, yet they tell a story that is uniquely Southeast Asian in its rich hybridity. Our comparative scope and focus on language, analysed in tandem with history and culture, adds a refreshing dimension to the broader field of Sino-Southeast Asian Studies.
The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies
Author : Zhengdao Ye
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9811609241
Book Description
This new major reference work provides a comprehensive overview of linguistic phenomena in a variety of Sinitic languages in a global context, highlighting the dynamic interaction between these languages and English. This “living reference work” offers a window into the linguistic sphere in China and beyond, and showcases the latest research into diverse and evolving linguistic phenomena that have resulted from intensified interactions between the Sinophone world and other lingua-spheres. The Handbook is divided into five sections. The chapters in Section I (New Research Trends in Chinese Linguistic Research) present fast-growing research areas in Chinese linguistics, particularly those undertaken by scholars based in China. Section II (Interactions of Sinitic Languages) focuses on language-contact situations inside and outside China. The chapters in Section III (Meaning, Culture, Translation) explore the meanings of key cultural concepts, and how ideas move between Chinese and English through translation across various genres. Section IV (New Trends in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) covers new ideas and practices relating to teaching the Chinese language and culture. The final section, Section V (Transference from Chinese to English), explores dynamic interactions between varieties of Chinese and varieties of English, as they play out in multilingual sites and settings
Chinese Linguistics
Author : Giorgio Francesco Arcodia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2022-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0198847831
Book Description
Presents a directory of WWW resources on Chinese linguistics, compiled by the East Asian Libraries Cooperative. Links to resources on phonetics, grammar, and dialects. Provides access to online courses, journals, and academic organizations.
Serial Verbs
Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Typology and
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198791267
Book Description
This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate. It uses an inductively-based framework for the analysis and draws on data from languages with different typological profiles and genetic affiliations.
Serial Verbs
Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192508776
Book Description
This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate, describe what is conceptualized as a single event. The verbs in the construction have the same tense, aspect, mood, modality, and evidentiality values, cannot be negated or questioned separately, and usually share the same subject and object. They are a powerful means of portraying various facets of one event, and can express grammatical meanings such as aspect, direction, and causation, particularly in languages where few other means are available. In this volume, Alexandra Aikhenvald seeks to answer unresolved questions such as: What are the parameters of variation in serial verbs? How do serial verbs differ from other, superficially similar multi-verb constructions? How do serial verbs emerge, and what happens to them over time? What role do they play in the representation of event structure? The book uses an inductively-based framework for the analysis and draws on data from languages with different typological profiles and genetic affiliations. It will be of interest to researchers and students from a wide range of fields of linguistics, especially typology, anthropological linguistics, and language contact.
A Grammar of Southern Min
Author : Weirong Chen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1501511866
Book Description
Southern Min (also known as Hokkien or Minnan) is a major branch of Chinese spoken mainly in Fujian and Taiwan, but also in Guangdong, Hainan and Hong Kong, as well as in many countries of Southeast Asia. Highly conservative in its linguistic profile, it is considered by many scholars to be a living language fossil due to the preservation of many archaic features that reflect its long-lasting history and culture. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive study of Southern Min using a typological framework, as the tendency is to base analyses on the model of Mandarin Chinese, the standard language. This grammar aims to present a systematic description of the Hui'an variety of Southern Min, mainly based on data collected via naturally occurring conversation. The volume includes four parts: nominal structure, predicate structure, clause structure and complex sentences, as well as a brief overview of phonology. It will have great appeal for heritage speakers, graduate students and scholars in both Chinese linguistics and typology.
Nominalization in Asian Languages
Author : Foong Ha Yap
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027287244
Book Description
Research on nominalization, a process that gives rise to referring expressions, has always played a central role in linguistic investigations. Over the years there has also been growing evidence that nominalization constructions often extend to non-referential domains. They participate in noun-modifying expressions (e.g. genitive and relative clauses), subordinate clauses and topic constructions, finite structures with the nominalizers reanalyzed as TAM markers, and stance constructions with evaluative, attitudinal, evidential and epistemic overtones. This volume brings together historical and crosslinguistic evidence from more than 20 different languages representing six different language families spanning the Asian continent and the Pacific and Indian oceans to elucidate the strategies and grammaticalization pathways that give rise to both referential and non-referential uses of nominalization constructions. This collection highlights the diversity of strategies and at the same time the robust cyclical nature of change within and across languages. The combined diachronic and typological analyses in this volume are particularly valuable for linguistic research on diachronic morphosyntax and linguistic ‘universals’, and are also an important supplementary cross-referencing tool for linguistic investigations of versatile and ubiquitous morphemes in under-documented languages.
