Typology of Motion Events : An Empirical Study of Chinese Dialects, The

Chinese language Direction in language Typology (Linguistics) sähkökirjat Andere Sprachen FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
De Gruyter Mouton
2014
EISBN 9783110341768
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, Min 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.
