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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2013.
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| Colección: | Empirical Approaches to Language Typology EALT.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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: | 1 online resource (426 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110341768 311034176X 3110335778 9783110335774 |