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, Min and Cantonese. The author shows that these dialects form a continuum with some exhibiting more characteristics of a ver…
Biographical note: Carine Yuk-man Yiu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China. 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 a…
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 ver…
1. Introduction -- 2. Syllable and foot in the Fuzhou dialect -- 3. Prosodic word: domain of lexical-level rule application in the Fuzhou dialect -- 4. Enclitics and Type A clitic group in the Fuzhou dialect -- 5. Phonological phrase: domain of phrasal-level rule application in …
"Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect: Domains and Rule Application is the first attempt to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the Fuzhou phonological system from the perspective of prosodic phonology. It addresses the following issues: What prosodic constituents exist in t…
"Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect: Domains and Rule Application is the first attempt to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the Fuzhou phonological system from the perspective of prosodic phonology. It addresses the following issues: What prosodic constituents exist in t…
"The term Sino-Korean may refer to either the phonological system or vocabulary in Korean that is of Chinese origin. Along with the borrowing of Chinese characters, the Chinese readings of characters must also have been transmitted into Korean. A Study of Sino-Korean Phonology a…
A grammar of Gan Chinese: the Yichun language
by Li, XuPing
fromSinitic Languages of China
A grammar of Gan Chinese. The Yichun language
by Li, XuPing
fromSinitic Languages of China
China is very rich in language resources, and Mandarin is undoubtedly its most prestigious and well-known representative. Unfortunately, most of these languages remain understudied or even unstudied. Such is the case of Yichun Gan.0Written in the style of a reference grammar, th…
A Grammar of Gan Chinese: The Yichun Language
by Li, XuPing
fromSinitic Languages of China
A grammar of Gan Chinese: the Yichun language
by Li, XuPing
fromSinitic Languages of China
A Grammar of Gan Chinese: the Yichun Language
by Li, XuPing
fromSinitic Languages of China Ser
China is very rich in language resources, and Mandarin is undoubtedly its most prestigious and well-known representative. Unfortunately, most of these languages remain understudied or even unstudied. Such is the case of Yichun Gan. Written in the style of a reference grammar, th…
A grammar of Gan Chinese: the Yichun language
by Li, XuPing
fromSinitic Languages of China
China is very rich in language resources, and Mandarin is undoubtedly its most prestigious and well-known representative. Unfortunately, most of these languages remain understudied or even unstudied. Such is the case of Yichun Gan. Written in the style of a reference grammar, th…
The Sinitic Languages is the quintessence of Mieczyslaw Jerzy Kunstler's thirty years of research into the Chinese languages. Originally published in Polish in 2000 as Jezyki chinskie, this work collected Kunstler's various lectures on the fascinating world of this branch of the…
The Sinitic Languages is the quintessence of Mieczysaw Jerzy Keunstler's thirty years of research into the Chinese languages. Originally published in Polish in 2000 as Jnezyki chianskie, this work collected Keunstler's various lectures on the fascinating world of this branch of …