A Grammar Of Longxi Qiang

Author : Wuxi Zheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : China
ISBN : 3862888312

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A Grammar of Longxi Qiang by Wuxi Zheng Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive grammatical description of Longxi Qiang, a little-studied Qiang language of Sichuan. It contains 14 chapters that covers phonology, nominal and verbal form classes, adverbs, nominal morphology, aspect, person, mood, evidentiality, epistemic modality, negation, structure of clause, clause combining and discourse features.0Longxi Qiang is a tonal, verb-final, agglutinative language. It is a head-marking and dependent-marking language. Nominal morphological processes in Longxi Qiang include compounding, derivation and inflection. Verbal morphology includes person, aspect, mood, direction, causation, evidentiality, and negation morphemes. Agentive marking in Longxi Qiang is semantically and pragmatically motivated, not syntactically motivated. Person markers reflect aspect to a great degree. Co-reference in texts can be realized by a pronoun, ellipsis, a repeated form and by lexical replacement.0The production of this book is based on the author?s PhD dissertation. One of the examiners comments that the completion of this dissertation is an important achievement, filling a lacuna in the description of endangered languages of Southern China.

Author : Randy J. LaPolla,Chenglong Huang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197273

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A Grammar of Qiang by Randy J. LaPolla,Chenglong Huang Pdf

This book is a full reference grammar of Qiang, one of the minority languages of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northern Sichuan Province. It belongs to the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman (one of the two major branches of Sino-Tibetan). The dialect presented in the book is the Northern Qiang variety spoken in Ronghong Village, Yadu Township, Chibusu District, Mao County. This book, the first book-length description of the Qiang language in English, is the result of many years of work on the language, and is as typologically comprehensive as possible. It includes not only the reference grammar, but also an ethnological overview, several fully analyzed texts (mostly traditional stories), and an annotated glossary. The language is verb final, agglutinative (prefixing and suffixing), and has both head-marking and dependent marking morphology. The phonology of Qiang is quite complex, with 39 consonants at seven points of articulation, plus complex consonant clusters, both in initial and final position, as well as vowel harmony, vowel length distinctions, and a set of retroflexed vowels. The grammar also is complex, with a paradigm of eight direction marking verbal prefixes, and two paradigms for person marking, one for actor, one for non-actor, and a variety of other verbal prefixes and suffixes, as well as definite and number marking on nouns. Noun phrases take classifiers and relational pospositions as well.

Author : William Croft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107093638

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Morphosyntax by William Croft Pdf

Taking a functional approach, this book provides a thorough overview of Morphosyntax, and sets out a framework for syntactic constructions.

Author : Junwei Bai
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004526280

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A Typological Study of Evidentiality in Qiangic Languages by Junwei Bai Pdf

This is the first in-depth typological research into how the grammatical encoding of information source, that is, evidentiality, functions in Qiangic languages.

Author : Li Jiang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004293045

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A Grammar of Guìqióng by Li Jiang Pdf

In A Grammar of Guìqióng, Jiāng Lì describes the grammar of Guìqióng, a hitherto undocumented language spoken by alpine people in Kāngdìng county, China. Guìqióng has a lot to offer in its phonology, verbal and nominal morphology, syntax and glossary, distinguishing itself from the neighbouring Tibetan, Chinese, Qiangic and Loloish languages. The newly discovered features of Guìqióng include breathy vs. modal voice, indefinite number, ablative, ergative, instrumental, dative and genitive case markers, topic and emphatic markers, the diminutive suffixes, the pronominal and deictic systems, demonstratives and numerals, a rich store of differentiated copular verbs expressing equationality, inchoative, animacy vs. inanimacy, dependent existence and negation, verbal affixes indicating directions, present tense of experienced perceptions, gnomic tense, perfective vs. imperfective aspect, modality and evidentiality.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Grammar of Spoken Chinese by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Peverelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783662465042

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The History of Modern Chinese Grammar Studies by Peter Peverelli Pdf

This book discusses the way Chinese scholars developed a national grammar. Chinese didn’t develop grammar until China’s contact with Western grammar books in the 19th Century. The first indigenous grammar was published in 1889. It included some traditional notions, but mainly imitated European grammar. It was followed by a number of other similar works. To move away from this imitation, a group of grammarians started to look into the Chinese tradition of commenting on classics. This led to a variety of alternative grammars. After the war, Western linguistics started to gain influence in China. With the establishment of the PRC in 1949, efforts began to have a standard grammar adopted nationwide. The first attempt at such a grammar was published in 1956. This book spans the period 1898 – 1956.This book combines historiography and linguistics to distinguish different periods in the timespan covered. It shows how the development of a national grammar cannot be studied separately from language policies and discussions on the national language. The description of each period includes a general introduction of the relevant events in that period and a treatment of the major works of grammar.

Author : William Lobscheid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:758895310

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Grammar of the Chinese Language by William Lobscheid Pdf

Author : Yuen Ren Chao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : MINN:31951001770148I

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A Grammar of Spoken Chinese by Yuen Ren Chao Pdf

Author : Keith W. Slater
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0700714715

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A Grammar of Mangghuer by Keith W. Slater Pdf

Mangghuer is a Mongolic language spoken by approximately 35,000 people in China's northwestern Qinghai Province. No grammar of Mangghuer has ever been published in any language. This book is a systematic, typologically-oriented grammatical description, based primarily on narrative text data. Historical discussions emphasize the extensive effects of language contact on Mangghuer, which has been heavily influenced by neighboring Chinese and Tibetan languages. The book's primary importance is as a typologically-oriented grammatical description of a little-known language. It also makes a significant contribution to comparative Mongolic studies and to the characterization of language contact processes in the Qinghai-Gansu Sprachbund.

Author : Hua Lin
Publisher : Muenchen : Lincom Europa
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015050730723

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A Grammar of Mandarin Chinese by Hua Lin Pdf

Author : Robert Morrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210507120

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通用汉言之法 by Robert Morrison Pdf

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Author : XuPing Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : OCLC:1101750352

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A Grammar of Gan Chinese by XuPing Li Pdf

Author : William Lobscheid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : OCLC:229963194

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Grammar of the Chinese Language by William Lobscheid Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Tibeto-Burman languages
ISBN : IND:30000008446969

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Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area by Anonim Pdf