A Grammar of Shaowu A Sinitic Language of Northwestern Fujian

A Grammar of Shaowu A Sinitic Language of Northwestern Fujian

This is the first comprehensive grammar of Shaowu, a Min language spoken in Shaowu city and its environs in northwestern Fujian province, China. The book offers first-hand linguistic data collected over four years in the field, now placed at the disposal of researchers and students working in langua...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ngai, Sing Sing
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]
Series:Sinitic languages of China ; v. 5.
Subjects:
Northern Min dialects > Grammar.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • List of maps
  • List of abbreviations
  • Glossary of specific terms and notational symbols
  • Abstract
  • Résumé
  • Shaowu as a Sinitic language
  • Periodisation of Sinitic
  • Special characters and symbols, transcription and glossing conventions
  • Background &amp
  • overview
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Geography, demography and history of Shaowu
  • Part I: Phonetics &amp
  • phonology
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 3 Phonology
  • Part II: Nominal structure
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 4 Pronominal systems
  • Chapter 5 Classifier systems and counting paradigms
  • Chapter 6 Affixal morphology
  • Chapter 7 Reduplication
  • Chapter 8 Compounding
  • Chapter 9 Kinship terms
  • Chapter 10 Locative adpositions around NPs
  • Chapter 11 Relative clauses
  • Chapter 12 Possessive noun phrases and inalienability
  • Part III: Predicate structure
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 13 Verb classes
  • Chapter 14 Adpositional phrases
  • Chapter 15 Adverbs and adverbial phrases
  • Chapter 16 Negation and negative markers
  • Chapter 17 Modality, modal auxiliaries and their syntax
  • Chapter 27 Ditransitive constructions
  • Chapter 28 Passive constructions
  • Chapter 29 Causative constructions
  • Chapter 30 Existential and identity constructions
  • Chapter 31 Copular constructions
  • Chapter 32 Locative constructions
  • Chapter 33 Interrogative structures: Polar, disjunctive and content questions
  • Chapter 34 Imperatives and other moods
  • Chapter 35 Clause-final particles
  • Part V: Complex sentences &amp
  • clause combining
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 36 Coordination
  • Chapter 37 Subordination
  • Chapter 38 Temporal subordination of simultaneity and sequentiality
  • Chapter 39 Causal constructions
  • Chapter 40 Conditional constructions
  • Chapter 41 Concessive constructions
  • Chapter 42 Purposive constructions
  • Chapter 43 Other types of complementation in complex sentences
  • Chapter 44 Co-subordination
  • Chapter 45 Conclusion
  • Part VI: Lexicon
  • Chapter 46 Mini lexicon
  • Part VII: Transcription samples
  • A children's song
  • Shaowu, the Iron City
  • Shaowu and its geography
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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