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Zusatztext The book is the first that combines diachronic with synchronic approaches in the study of Sinitic languages. ... There have been no lack of diachronic studies of Chinese grammar, for instance, but there has been no volume...that houses so many studies in one place. ...a must for students of Sinitic languages. Informationen zum Autor Hilary Chappell is a senior lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at La Trobe University, Melbourne. During the last eight years, she has embarked upon the first large scale typological study of grammatical diversity in Sinitic (Chinese) languages. She has carried out field work and research in China (2 years) and Taiwan (1 year), initially studying at Beijing University. Her publications include a jointly edited volume with William McGregor entitled 'The Grammar of Inalienavility' (Mouton de Gruyter, 1995) which has become a standard reference in typology on the topic of grammatical possession. She has also published over 30 book chapters and articles on topics in the grammar of Chinese languages. Klappentext This book melds historical and typological approaches in the examination of grammatical phenomena in order to show the extent to which both earlier stages of Chinese! as well as the modern dialects! differ from standard Mandarin. Each essay investigates a Chinese language! dialect! or historical period! and the introduction describes the history and geography of Sinitic languages. Zusammenfassung This is an original and accessible analysis of the past, present, and current nature of Chinese languages. It first appeared in hardback under the title Sinitic Grammar (2001). Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Introduction 1: Hilary Chappell: Synchrony and Diachrony of Sinitic Languages: A Brief History of Chinese Dialects Part II: Typological and Comparative Grammar 2: Yunji Wu: The Development of Locative Markers in the Xiang-Changsha Dialect 3: Hilary Chappell: A Typology of Evidential Markers in Sinitic Languages 4: Christine Lamarre: Verb Complement Constructions in Chinese Dialects: Types and Markers Part III: Historical and Diachronic Grammar 5: Laurent Sagart: Vestiges of Archaic Chinese Derivational Affixes in Modern Chinese Dialects 6: Redouane Djamouri: Markers of Predication in Shang Bone Inscriptions 7: Alain Peyraube: On the Modal Auxiliaries of Volition in Classical Chinese Part IV: Yue Grammar 8: Hung-Nin Samuel Cheung: The Interrogative Construction: (Re)constructing Early Cantonese Grammar 9: Anne Yue: The Verb Complement Construction in Historical Perspective with Special Reference to Cantonese 10: Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip: Aspects of Contemporary Cantonese Grammar: The Structure and Stratification of Relative Clauses Part V: Southern Min Grammar 11: Tsao Feng-Fu: Semantics and Syntax of Verbal and Adjectival Reduplication in Mandarin and Taiwanese Southern Min 12: Chinfa Lien: Competing Morphological Changes in Taiwanese Southern Min 13: Ying-Che Li: Aspects of Historical-Comparative Syntax: Functions of Prepositions in Taiwanese and Mandarin ...
