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Sinitic languages

2021
This chapter provides a historical and typological overview of Sinitic languages. It first discusses the terminology related to Chinese, clarifying the meaning of ‘language’, ‘dialect’, and ‘standard’ in this context. It then proposes a concise overview of the diachronic development of Sinitic languages, with a focus on diversity and on the concept of ‘
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Bianca Basciano   +1 more
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LFG and Sinitic languages

2023
The assumptions of LFG have been applied to the research on a number of grammatical phenomena in Chinese languages. In this chapter, we present an overviewof some of the studies devoted to investigating the syntactic patterns of two varieties of Chinese: Mandarin and Cantonese.
Olivia S.-C. Lam, One-Soon Her, Jing Chen, Sophia Y.-M. Lee   +3 more
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Diversity in Sinitic Languages

2015
PART I: APPROACHES TO DIVERSITY IN SINITIC LANGUAGES PART II: TYPOLOGICAL STUDIES OF SINITIC LANGUAGES PART III: INDIVIDUAL STUDIES OF LINGUISTIC MICRO ...
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Classifiers in Sinitic languages: From individuation to definiteness-marking

Lingua, 2012
Abstract This article examines the distribution and interpretation of the bare classifier phrase [Cl+N] in three Sinitic languages of Mandarin, Wu and Cantonese. We show that [Cl+N] can be interpreted as definite or indefinite depending on pragmatic factors related to information structure and word order. Syntactically, we claim that indefinite [Cl+N]
XuPing Li, Walter Bisang
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The Double Unaccusative Construction in Sinitic Languages

1999
The present study examines a syntactically aberrant construction in Sinitic languages which I provisionally label the "double unaccusative".This construction represents a clear example of a syntactic construction where the rules of grammar, narrowly understood, are violated: in the double unaccusative, intransitive process verbs take two arguments, one
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On some endangered Sinitic languages spoken in Northwestern China

European Review, 2017
This paper will examine one of the most characteristic syntactic properties of languages, namely the case system for the following three Sinitic languages spoken in Northwestern China: Línxià (or Hézhōu), Tāngwāng, Gāngōu, which have been sometimes viewed as ‘mixed languages’.
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A Typology of Evidential Markers in Sinitic Languages

2001
Abstract In this study, I argue that the experiential aspect marker in Sinitic languages should be reclassified as an evidential marker based on its semantic characteristics. The analysis shows that the relevant marker in each Sinitic language is used to express the speaker os commitment to the truth of the proposition, specifically ...
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Egophoric marking in a sinitic language: The case of baoding

Journal of Pragmatics, 2019
Abstract This paper discusses the egophoric function of a sentence-final enclitic particle used in the Mandarin dialect of Baoding (Sinitic, Hebei, northern China) to express intention in an imminent future. We show that in Baoding, ia can occur in first-person subject declarative sentences as well as in second-person interrogative sentences, but ...
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Mieczysław Jerzy Künstler: The Sinitic Languages. A Contribution to Sinological Linguistics

2022
CHUN - Chinesischunterricht, Bd.
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A Typological Study of Verbal Classifiers in Sinitic Languages

2022
Cette thèse présente la première étude complète et détaillée des classificateurs verbaux dans les langues sinitiques. Neuf catégories de classificateurs verbaux sont identifiées à travers un échantillon très représentatif de 641 langues et dialectes appartenant à la branche chinoise ou sinitique de la famille des langues sino-tibétaines.
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