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Longjia: An archaic Sinitic language

open access: yesAFEC | Association française d'études chinoises, 2022
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TACKLING DIVERSITY IN SINITIC LANGUAGES

open access: yes, 2015
Pre-publication & pre-review version of 'Introduction: Ways of tackling diversity in Sinitic languages.' In: H.M. Chappell(ed.) Diversity in Sinitic languages, OUP, 2015, pp. 3-12) This volume represents one of the first major outcomes of the ERC SINOTYPE project (2009-2013) which brought together seven researchers from China, France and Australia to ...
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SAY-COMPLEMENTIZERS IN SINITIC LANGUAGES

open access: yes, 2017
I treat the pathway of grammaticalization which leads to reanalysis of SAY verbs as the category of the complementizer in the case of Sinitic languages, casting an eye over the wider areal and crosslinguistic perspective. Each stage in this grammaticalization process is established in turn and a comparison made between Chinese dialects in terms of ...
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Towards a typology of aspect in Sinitic languages

open access: yes, 1992
This paper sets out to analyse the grammatical category of verbal aspect in representative dialects of three dialect groups within Sinitic, Mandarin, Yue-Guangzhou and Min-Xiamen, in order to investigate what the general grammatical features of aspect in Sinitic are as opposed to the specific and unique features of aspect in each dialect. The syntactic
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