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Author:   Hilary M. Chappell (Chair Professor in Linguistic Typology, Chair Professor in Linguistic Typology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.628kg
ISBN:  

9780198723790

ISBN 10:   0198723792
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   03 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Acknowledgements Notes on contributors PART I: Approaches to Diversity in Sinitic Languages 1: Hilary M. Chappell: Introduction: Ways of tackling diversity in Sinitic languages 2: Hilary M. Chappell: Linguistic areas in China for differential object marking, passive, and comparative constructions 3: Alain Peyraube: Grammatical change in Sinitic languages and its relation to typology PART II: Typological Studies of Sinitic Languages 4: Yujie Chen: The semantic differentiation of demonstratives in Sinitic languages 5: Wang Jian: Bare classifier phrases in Sinitic languages: A typological perspective 6: Hilary M. Chappell and Alain Peyraube: The comparative construction in Sinitic languages: Synchronic and diachronic variation PART III: Individual Studies of Linguistic Micro-Areas 7: Hilário de Sousa: Language contact in Nanning: Nanning Pinghua and Nanning Cantonese 8: Sing Sing Ngai: On the origin of special numerals for 'one' in southeastern China: [kɛi213] in the northwestern Min dialect of Shaowu 9: XuPing Li: Complex pronouns in Wu Chinese: Focalization and topicalization 10: Weirong Chen: Comparative constructions of inequality in the Southern Min dialect of Hui'an References Index

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Hilary M. Chappell holds the Chair in Linguistic Typology of East Asia at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Her main research is on the typology of Sinitic languages (or Chinese dialects) with the goal of investigating the extent of their linguistic diversity. To this end, she has been carrying out fieldwork over the past seven years in Hunan province, China, on the Xianghua language. A second, related research area pertains to the diachronic syntax of Southern Min (Hokkien), making use of a corpus of late 16th and early 17th century materials. Her publications include Sinitic Grammar: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (OUP, 2001), Chinese Grammar: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (OUP, 2004), and, with Christine Lamarre, A Grammar and Lexicon of Hakka (EHESS, 2005).

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