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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013.
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology EALT.
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