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The Typology of Motion Events: An Empirical Study of Chinese Dialects

By Carine Yuk-man Yiu

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2013
ISBN
3110335778, 9783110335774
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15476288 bytes)
Series
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 53
Pages
405\426
Time added
2016-03-27 19:17:45
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Description

This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wu, Hakka, Min 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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