Sinitic grammar
Subtitle: synchronic and diachronic perspectives
By: edited by Hilary Chappell.
Contributors: Chappell, Hilary, 1955-; International Symposium on Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on the Grammar of Sinitic Languages (1st : 1996 : Melbourne, Australia)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Chinese language -- Dialects -- Grammar
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-388) and indexes.
Rev. version of papers presented at the 1st International Symposium on Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on the Grammar of Sinitic Languages, which was held July 1996, Melbourne, Australia.
Map on lining papers.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I: Introduction; title: 1 Synchrony and Diachrony of Sinitic Languages: A Brief; title: History of Chinese Dialects; title: Hilary Chappell; title: PART II: Typological and Comparative Grammar; title: 2 The Development of Locative Markers in the Changsha; title: Xiang Dialect; title: Yunji Wu; title: 3A Typology of Evidential Markers in Sinitic Languages; title: Hilary Chappell; title: 4 Verb Complement Constructions in Chinese Dialects:; title: Types and Markers; title: Christine Lamarre; title: PART III: Historical and Diachronic Grammar; title: 5 Vestiges of Archaic Chinese Derivational Affixes in; title: Modern Chinese Dialects; title: Laurent Sagart; title: 6 Markers of Predication in Shang Bone Inscriptions; title: Redouane Djamouri; title: 7 On the Modal Auxiliaries of Volition in Classical; title: Chinese; title: Alain Peyraube; title: PART IV: Yue Grammar; title: 8 The Interrogative Construction: (Re)constructing Early; title: Cantonese Grammar; title: Hung-Nin Samuel Cheung; title: 9 The Verb Complement .Constr-uction -in-Histerieal.; title: Perspective with Special Reference to Cantonese; title: Anne Yue; title: 10 Aspects of Contemporary Cantonese Grammar:; title: The Structure and Stratification of Relative Clauses; title: Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip; title: PART V: Southern Min Grammar; title: 11 Semantics and Syntax of Verbal and Adjectival; title: Reduplication in Mandarin and Taiwanese Southern Min; title: Feng-fu Tsao; title: 12 Competing Morphological Changes in Taiwanese; title: Southern Min; title: Chinfa Lien; title: 13 Aspects of Historical-Comparative Syntax: Functions; title: of Prepositions in Taiwanese and Mandarin; title: Ying-Che Li; title: Bibliography; title: Index of Languages, Dialects, and Places; title: Author Index; title: General Subject Index.