A Grammar of Southern Min The Hui'an Dialect
Southern Min (also known as Hokkien or Minnan) is a major branch of Chinese spoken mainly in Fujian and Taiwan, but also in Guangdong, Hainan and Hong Kong, as well as in many countries of Southeast Asia. Highly conservative in its linguistic profile, it is considered by many scholars to be a living...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2020]
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| Series: | Sinitic Languages of China ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface / Chappell, H.M.
- List of abbreviations
- Content
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Phonology
- Part I: Nominal structure
- 3. Affixation and compounding
- 4. Pronouns
- 5. Nominal demonstratives
- 6. Numerals and quantifiers
- 7. Classifiers
- 8. Possessive constructions
- Part II: predicate structure
- 9. Reduplication
- 10. Verb complement constructions
- 11. Aspect
- 12. Modality
- 13. Negation
- 14. Adpositions
- 15. Adverbs
- Part III: clausal structure
- 16. The kaʔ7- and ka5- constructions
- 17. Comparative constructions of inequality
- 18. The 'give' construction
- 19. Interrogatives
- 20. Topic-comment constructions
- Part IV: complex sentences
- 21. Coordination
- 22. Relative clauses
- 23. Adverbial clauses
- 24. Complement clauses
- 25. Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Appendix