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Contact-Induced Language Change in the History of the Chinese Language / edited by Redouane Djamouri, Christine Lamarre, and Julie Lefort.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
- Languages of Asia ; 32.
- Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025
- Languages of Asia ; 32
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian Studies.
- Languages and Linguistics.
- Morphology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (500 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What happens when Chinese is shaped by centuries of contact with Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic, and Tibetic languages? This volume explores this question through striking case studies of lects like Tangwang and Wutun, where Chinese exhibits unexpected features such as OV word order, case suffixes, and restructured verbal morphology. Drawing on rare fieldwork data, this volume reveals how deep multilingual interaction transforms grammatical systems. It offers a unique contribution to the study of language change, typology, and contact linguistics—essential reading for anyone interested in how languages evolve in complex sociolinguistic environments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-75008-8
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004750081 DOI
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