Language Contact and Change in Chinese / Guangshun Cao, Hsiao-jung Yu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cao, Guangshun, Editor.

Yu, Hsiao-jung, Editor.

Series:

Trends in Chinese linguistics ; Volume 1.

Trends in Chinese Linguistics [TCL] ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Foreign elements.

Chinese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 253 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The book sheds light on the fascinating evolution of contact-induced grammatical features in Chinese syntax. For more than two thousand years, Chinese has been in large scale language contact with languages such as Sanskrit, Mongolian, and Manchurian. Originally published in Chinese in renowned academic journals, the contributions are made available for the first time to the English speaking world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Theory and fact - A study of the translated Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period from the perspective of language contact

On the origin of the Chinese reflexive ziji from the perspective of the Medieval Chinese Buddhist scriptures

The origin and development of negative exclusive particles in the Chinese language

The postpositions suo 所 and bian 边 in translated Chinese Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period

Variant reduplication and four-character state adjectives in Yuan Zaju

The correlation between the Chinese purpose construction "VP + qu (去, 'go')" and SOV languages

On the Han'er Yanyu of the Yuan Dynasty

A study of the special syntactic features in Yuan baihua

On the special syntactic features in the vernacular imperial edicts of the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1424)

The influence of language contact on word order of some minority languages in Southern China

Second language acquisition and contactinduced language change in the history of the Chinese language

Postscript

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110610246

3110610248

9783110612981

3110612984

OCLC:

1114812384