Ebook: The Typology of Motion Events: An Empirical Study of Chinese Dialects
Author: Carine Yuk-man Yiu
- Tags: Linguistics, Words Language & Grammar, Reference, Linguistics, Humanities, New Used & Rental Textbooks, Specialty Boutique, Chinese, Foreign Languages, Humanities, New Used & Rental Textbooks, Specialty Boutique
- Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 53
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
- Language: English
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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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