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…
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 …
This is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia, examining Chinese script of the early common era, the spread of Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and medical texts throughout East Asia, all the way to the end of the nineteenth century when nationalism created new role…