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Diachronic Perspectives and Synchronic Variation in Southern Min book cover

1st Edition

Diachronic Perspectives and Synchronic Variation in Southern Min

Edited By Chinfa Lien, Alain Peyraube Copyright 2020
256 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Diachronic Perspectives and Synchronic Variation in Southern Min aims to address a range of grammatical phenomena in Southern Min. The Sinitic languages show divergence not only in phonology but also in grammar. Together with Hakka, Yue and part of Wu, Min forms the two major Southern groups of Far Southern and Southeastern languages. There is a range of grammatical phenomena in Southern... Read more

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Maps

List of Tables

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

Chinfa Lien and Alain Peyraube

2. Comparatives of inequality in Southern Min: a study in diachronic change from 15th to 21st centuries

Hilary Chappell, Alain Peyraube, Song Na

3. The emergence of obligative modal tioh8 in Southern Min: a change induced by semantic-pragmatic factors

Ting-ting Christina Hsu

4. Negation of dynamic modals with DIT ¿ in Hainan Min

Huichi Lee

5. Word change and language change: a case of ¿ as a coordinating conjunction from Archaic Chinese gòng ¿ to ka7 ¿ in Taiwanese Southern Min Lin

Jang Ling Lin

6. Exploration of the benefactive marker kang7 ¿ in Ming Qing Southern Min script

Chian-tang Su

7. Taiwanese Southern Min hoo7 and its counterparts in the Southern Min varieties in Quemoy and Quanzhou

Chai-yin Hu

8. The etymology and grammaticalization of the continuative aspect marker le(h)4: a survey from the historical documents

Manjun Chen

9. Kong2 as a verb for saying 'on the move' in Taiwanese Southern Min

Chinfa Lien

10. Purposives in Taiwanese Southern Min

Chinfa Lien and May Wang

Biography

Chinfa Lien (¿¿¿) is Chair and Emeritus Professor at the Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He publishes widely from a synchronic and diachronic perspective focusing on functional categories such as demonstratives, pronouns, modals, negation, and aspect as well as grammatical constructions such as interrogatives, exclamatives, and imperatives in Southern Min.

Alain Peyraube is Emeritus Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris, France) and Chair Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris, France). As a specialist in Chinese historical syntax and more recently on linguistic typology of Sinitic languages, he has authored five books and around two hundred articles. His latest research has been done within a broadly functional and cognitive framework from a cross-linguistic perspective.

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