The Typology of Motion Events An Empirical Study of Chinese Dialects
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| Format: | Abschlussarbeit Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Berlin
De Gruyter
2013
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| Schriftenreihe: | Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-824 Volltext |
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| Beschreibung: | Biographical note: Carine Yuk-man Yiu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Main description: This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wú, Hakka, M?n 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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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 405 S.) |
| ISBN: | 9783110335774 9783110341768 9783110341775 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110341768 |