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Language formation by adults : the case of Sino-Russian idiolects /
"Chinese immigrants who settle in Russia's Far East without formal instruction in the Russian language communicate with local Russians using Russian vocabulary. Each immigrant forms their language to communicate with Russians, not with family or other immigrants. The 'single-generatio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2021.
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| Colección: | Brill Studies in language contact and dynamics of language ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1. The Aim of the Work
- 2. The Languages
- 3. The Importance of This Study
- 4. Previous Research
- 5. Sino-Russian Idiolects Are Not 'New Varieties'
- 6. Previous Research on Sino-Russian
- 7. Methodology
- 8. The Data
- 9. A Note about Glossing Conventionn
- Chapter 2. Phonology
- 1. Previous Scholarship on Phonology
- 2. Segmental Structure, Constraints and Rules of Mandarin
- 3. Segmental Structure, Constraints and Rules of Russian
- 4. The Sino-Russian Segmental Inventory
- 5. Resolution of Features and Phonotactic Constraints
- 6. Phonotactics
- 7. The Dental Sonorants: r, l and n Distinction
- 8. Stress Assignment
- 9. Conclusions and Implications about Phonology
- Chapter 3. Other Formal Means of Coding
- 1. Introduction to Formal Means
- 2. The Category 'Word'
- 3. Pauses
- 4. Linear Orders as a Coding Means
- 5. Free Grammatical Morphemes
- 6. Conclusions regarding the Formal Means of Coding in Sino-Russian
- Chapter 4. Lexicons of the Sino-Russian Idiolects
- 1. Aim of the Chapter
- 2. Lexical Categories
- 3. Number of Words and Number of Different Words in the Texts
- 4. Lexical Convergence
- 5. The Choice of Lexical Items
- 6. Conclusions about Lexical Items
- Chapter 5. The Emergence of Phrasal Categories
- 1. The Importance of the Chapter
- 2. The Emergence of the Noun Phrase
- 3. The Emergence of Prepositional Phrases
- 4. Numeral Phrases
- 5. Verb Phrases (Lack Of)
- 6. The Role of Pauses in Defining the Phrasal Structure
- 7. Conclusion about the Emergence of Phrasal Categories
- Chapter 6. The Noun Phrase
- 1. The Defining Features and the Formal Means of Coding within the Noun Phrase
- 2. Inceptive Coding of Number
- 3. Modification of One Noun by Another
- 4. Modification by a Pronoun
- 5. Modification by a Property Concept
- 6. Modification by a Quantifier
- 7. Conclusions about Noun Phrase
- Chapter 7. System of Reference
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Formal Coding Means
- 3. Introduction of New Entities in Discourse
- 4. Coding an Unknown Member of a Set
- 5. Reference Left To Listener's Computation
- 6. Switch Reference within Discourse: the Function of Pronouns
- 7. Deixis
- 8. Anaphora
- 9. Unspecified Entity
- 10. Locative Anaphora
- 11. Conclusions about the System of Reference
- Chapter 8. Antecedent-Follow up Relation
- 1. The Role of Pauses
- 2. The Antecedent-Comment Distinction
- 3. Utterance-Internal Pauses
- 4. Discourse Connection
- 5. Non-propositional Addressee and Presentative Function
- 6. Conclusions
- Chapter 9. Modality
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Assertive Modality
- 3. Interrogative Modality
- 4. Negation
- 5. Imperative: Expectation of the Immediate Implementation