Chinese Grammar
Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 January 2004
- ISBN 9780199272136
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages428 pages
- Size 229x149x21 mm
- Weight 578 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables 0
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Short description:
This is an original and accessible analysis of the past, present, and current nature of Chinese languages. It first appeared in hardback under the title Sinitic Grammar (2001).
MoreLong description:
This book presents pioneering accounts by leading scholars of twelve central aspects of the grammar of Chinese languages. Deploying a combination of historical and typological approaches it shows the variety and diversity of Chinese languages as well as the extent to which these and their dialects differ from Mandarin. Each author provides full background information on the language or dialect under consideration including its historical and contemporary context. In her introduction Dr Chappell describes the history and geography of Chinese languages.
"A must-read... a vital reassessment of the field which shows there is much to be learned by integrating historical study with dialectal investigation." Journal of Linguistics
"Chappell combines typological observations of Sinitic and non-Sinitic languages with general linguistic theory in a most satisfying fashion.... A very welcome, refeshing and exciting contribution." Cahiers de Linguistique
Hilary Chappell is senior lecturer in linguistics at La Trobe University. Her published work includes The Grammar of Inalienability (with William McGregor, Amsterdam, 1995). She is currently writing a book on the typology of Chinese languages, also to be published by OUP.
The book is the first that combines diachronic with synchronic approaches in the study of Sinitic languages. ... There have been no lack of diachronic studies of Chinese grammar, for instance, but there has been no volume...that houses so many studies in one place. ...a must for students of Sinitic languages.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Introduction
Synchrony and Diachrony of Sinitic Languages: A Brief History of Chinese Dialects
Part II: Typological and Comparative Grammar
The Development of Locative Markers in the Xiang-Changsha Dialect
A Typology of Evidential Markers in Sinitic Languages
Verb Complement Constructions in Chinese Dialects: Types and Markers
Part III: Historical and Diachronic Grammar
Vestiges of Archaic Chinese Derivational Affixes in Modern Chinese Dialects
Markers of Predication in Shang Bone Inscriptions
On the Modal Auxiliaries of Volition in Classical Chinese
Part IV: Yue Grammar
The Interrogative Construction: (Re)constructing Early Cantonese Grammar
The Verb Complement Construction in Historical Perspective with Special Reference to Cantonese
Aspects of Contemporary Cantonese Grammar: The Structure and Stratification of Relative Clauses
Part V: Southern Min Grammar
Semantics and Syntax of Verbal and Adjectival Reduplication in Mandarin and Taiwanese Southern Min
Competing Morphological Changes in Taiwanese Southern Min
Aspects of Historical-Comparative Syntax: Functions of Prepositions in Taiwanese and Mandarin
