The Typology of Motion Events an Empirical Study of Chinese Dialects
This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wú, Hakka, M?n and Cantonese. The author shows that these dialects form a continuum with some exhibiting more characteristics of a verb-framed language th...
| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology ; v.53. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30810024*spi |
| Sumario: | This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wú, Hakka, M?n 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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| Descripción Física: | 426 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9783110341768 |
