Chinese Grammar

Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-927213-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 428 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chappell, Hilary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Introduction

- 1: Hilary Chappell: Synchrony and Diachrony of Sinitic Languages: A Brief History of Chinese Dialects

- Part II: Typological and Comparative Grammar

- 2: Yunji Wu: The Development of Locative Markers in the Xiang-Changsha Dialect

- 3: Hilary Chappell: A Typology of Evidential Markers in Sinitic Languages

- 4: Christine Lamarre: Verb Complement Constructions in Chinese Dialects: Types and Markers

- Part III: Historical and Diachronic Grammar

- 5: Laurent Sagart: Vestiges of Archaic Chinese Derivational Affixes in Modern Chinese Dialects

- 6: Redouane Djamouri: Markers of Predication in Shang Bone Inscriptions

- 7: Alain Peyraube: On the Modal Auxiliaries of Volition in Classical Chinese

- Part IV: Yue Grammar

- 8: Hung-Nin Samuel Cheung: The Interrogative Construction: (Re)constructing Early Cantonese Grammar

- 9: Anne Yue: The Verb Complement Construction in Historical Perspective with Special Reference to Cantonese

- 10: Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip: Aspects of Contemporary Cantonese Grammar: The Structure and Stratification of Relative Clauses

- Part V: Southern Min Grammar

- 11: Tsao Feng-Fu: Semantics and Syntax of Verbal and Adjectival Reduplication in Mandarin and Taiwanese Southern Min

- 12: Chinfa Lien: Competing Morphological Changes in Taiwanese Southern Min

- 13: Ying-Che Li: Aspects of Historical-Comparative Syntax: Functions of Prepositions in Taiwanese and Mandarin

Über Autor(innen)

Hilary Chappell is a senior lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at La Trobe University, Melbourne. During the last eight years, she has embarked upon the first large scale typological study of grammatical diversity in Sinitic (Chinese) languages. She has carried out field work and research in China (2 years) and Taiwan (1 year), initially studying at Beijing University. Her publications include a jointly edited volume with William McGregor entitled 'The Grammar of Inalienavility' (Mouton de Gruyter, 1995) which has become a standard reference in typology on the topic of grammatical possession. She has also published over 30 book chapters and articles on topics in the grammar of Chinese languages.