Zhoutun

by Zhou, Chenlei

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Title Statements

Full title :Zhoutun / Chenlei Zhou.

Summary

"This book presents a description of the grammar of Zhoutun, an endangered Sinitic variety spoken by less than 1000 people in the Qinghai Province of northwest China. With vocabulary predominantly from Chinese and Tibetan syntax, Zhoutun is one of the Sinitic varieties most distant from Standard Chinese, with unexpected typological features like, for example, case markers, rigid SOV word order, simplified tonal system, negative copula as a disjunctive coordinator and "locutor-referential pronoun" which is not found in Chinese and in many languages. Zhoutun is also a representative variety of the Gansu-Qinghai linguistic area in which Mongolic and Turkic languages coexist with Tibetan and Chinese dialects from a long time. This book also describes the sociolinguistic and sociohistorical contexts of Zhoutun. It should be of interest to specialists and students of language contact, linguistic typology, Chinese dialectology, language geography, anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, folklore studies, and preservation of endangered languages"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2022.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2022.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 161 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781032113173, 1032113170, 9781032113180, 1032113189
oclc:on1292470525
LC Classification:PL1900.Z46
Dewey Decimal:495

Phonology -- Nouns and noun phrases -- Verbs and verb phrases -- Adjectives and adverbs -- Minor word classes -- Clause structure.

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