UID:
almafu_9961983721602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (628 pages)
ISBN:
9783110724806
Serie:
Sinitic Languages of China [SLCH] ; v.8
Inhalt:
Caijia, [meŋ²¹ni³³ŋoŋ³³] ‘Caijia speech’, is an endangered language in the Sino-Tibetan family with less than 1000 speakers in Hezhang and Weining counties in northwest in Guizhou Province in Southwest China. Its sub-classification remains unclear. It was almost four decades ago when the Caijia language was officially reported for the first time in 1982 by the Language Team of Bureau of Ethnic Identification in Bijie, yet this language has nevertheless remained neither well-described nor studied. This book, a linguistic description of the Xingfa variety of Caijia based on the fieldwork data in Xingfa township of Hezhang county, is the first reference grammar of the Caijia language, covering its sound system, word formation, parts of speech and syntactic structures in fifteen chapters. Being analytic, Caijia presents many common grammatical features attested in East and Southeast Asian languages, for example, compounds, quadrisyllabic idiomatic expressions or elaborate expressions, lack of inflection, a classifier system, a strong relationship between nominalization and relativization, pro-drop and grammaticalization of verbs. Moreover, Caijia shares more similarities with Sinitic languages. Apart from these common areal features, this book will also reveal some special features of Caijia.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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The preface by the series editor --
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Acknowledgements --
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Preface --
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Contents --
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List of figures --
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List of tables --
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Abbreviations --
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Chapter 1 Introduction --
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Chapter 2 Sound system --
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Chapter 3 Noun phrases --
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Chapter 4 Verb phrases --
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Chapter 5 Ditransitive constructions --
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Chapter 6 Analytic causative constructions --
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Chapter 7 Passive constructions --
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Chapter 8 Differential object marking constructions --
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Chapter 9 Constructions of comparison --
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Chapter 10 Aspect system --
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Chapter 11 Modal system --
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Chapter 12 Negation --
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Chapter 13 Interrogatives --
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Chapter 14 Relative clauses --
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Chapter 15 Clause linking: Complementation, coordination and adverbial subordination --
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Chapter 16 Conclusion --
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Text 1 The man and the tiger --
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Text 2 The zombie wife --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Lü, Shanshan A Reference Grammar of Caijia Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc.,c2022
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9783110724806
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