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SINITIC GRAMMAR
SYNCHRONIC AND DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVES |
| By: |
Hilary Chappell (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£70.00 |
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£61.25 |
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£8.75 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019829977X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198299776 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
29 November, 2001 |
| Pages: |
425 |
| Description: |
This is the first book in English to present cutting edge analyses on the grammar of little-explored Chinese languages and dialects. The contributors challenge the view that standard Mandarin should be taken as representative of all Chinese languages. By providing all necessary background information to the language covered in each chapter, in addition to full transcription and translation of all Chinese character examples, the book is made accessible to a generalreadership in addition to specialists within the field. |
| Synopsis: |
This book is an anthology on topics in the grammar of Chinese (Sinitic) languages. The aim of the book is to meld historical and typological approaches in the examination of grammatical phenomena in order to show the extent to which both earlier stages of Chinese, as well as the modern dialects, differ from standard Mandarin. With this purpose in mind, each author has provided important background information on the Chinese language or dialect under investigation-or on the historical period as the case may be. Similarly, the introduction to the book provides an up-to-date description of Sinitic languages in terms of history and geography, placing the goals of the volume into perspective. A dialect map of China and a summary of each chapter is provided in this same introductory chapter to further facilitate use of the book. General readers, curious about Sinitic languages-or Chinese dialects-should find this collection equally accessible as specialists in the fields of Chinese linguistics; typology; historical and diachronic linguistics; grammaticalization; and empirical, descriptive linguistics.Topics covered include aspect, evidentials, locatives, verb complementation, reduplication, modal verbs, markers of predication, affixation, prepositions, relative clauses, interrogatives, and stratification. Language data from most of the ten main Chinese dialect groups are presented, the specific dialect studies being on Xiang, Cantonese Yue, and Taiwanese Southern Min. Earlier stages of Chinese examined include the Pre-Archaic Shang bone inscriptions, Archaic and Medieval Chinese, and the written genre of Classical Chinese. |
| Illustrations: |
numerous tables and figures, 1 map |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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Returnable |
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