Diversity in Sinitic Languages - Chappell, Hilary M

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Résumé :
This book presents new research into the great structural diversity found in Sinitic languages. While many studies focus principally on Standard Mandarin, this work draws on extensive empirical data from lesser-known languages, and seeks to dispel many recurrent linguistic myths about the Sinitic language family. Part I presents findings that show the important interplay of research into diachronic linguistics and typology in China, beginning with a discussion of how to tackle the issue of linguistic diversity in Sinitic languages. Chapters in Part II examine the Sinitic languages from a crosslinguistic perspective with pan-Sinitic explorations of demonstrative paradigms...

Biographie:

• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• Notes on contributors


• PART I: Approaches to Diversity in Sinitic Languages


• 1: Hilary M. Chappell: Introduction: Ways of tackling diversity in Sinitic languages


• 2: Hilary M. Chappell: Linguistic areas in China for differential object marking, passive, and comparative constructions


• 3: Alain Peyraube: Grammatical change in Sinitic languages and its relation to typology


• PART II: Typological Studies of Sinitic Languages


• 4: Yujie Chen: The semantic differentiation of demonstratives in Sinitic languages


• 5: Wang Jian: Bare classifier phrases in Sinitic languages: A typological perspective


• 6: Hilary M. Chappell and Alain Peyraube: The comparative construction in Sinitic languages: Synchronic and diachronic variation


• PART III: Individual Studies of Linguistic Micro-Areas


• 7: Hil??rio de Sousa: Language contact in Nanning: Nanning Pinghua and Nanning Cantonese


• 8: Sing Sing Ngai: On the origin of special numerals for 'one' in southeastern China: [k?i213] in the northwestern Min dialect of Shaowu


• 9: XuPing Li: Complex pronouns in Wu Chinese: Focalization and topicalization


• 10: Weirong Chen: Comparative constructions of inequality in the Southern Min dialect of Hui'an


• References


• Index