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, 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.

About the author

Carine Yuk-man Yiu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China.

Product details

• Authors: Carine Yuk-man Yiu
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.01.2014
• EAN: 9783110335774
• ISBN: 978-3-11-033577-4
• No. of pages: 405
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 28 mm x 233 mm
• Weight: 761 g
• Illustrations: 10 b/w ill., 130 b/w tbl.
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]; Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics