2. The Yichun sound system

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Preface vii
4. List of abbreviations xi
5. Contents xiii
6. 1. Gan and the Gan People 1
7. 2. The Yichun sound system 13
8. 3. Morphology 23
9. 4. Personal pronouns 43
10. 5. Possessives 51
11. 6. Demonstratives 61
12. 7. Numerals and classifiers 73
13. 8. Adjectives and adjective phrases 87
14. 9. Prepositions 103
15. 10. Postpositions 117
16. 11. Aspectuality 127
17. 12. Modality 151
18. 13. Negation 163
19. 14. Resultative constructions 175
20. 15. Ditransitives 185
21. 16. BA constructions 201
22. 17. Passives and causatives 213
23. 18. Topic and focus related constructions 225
24. 19. Relative clauses 241
25. 20. Interrogatives 255
26. 21. Clause linking: coordination and subordination 275
27. References 293
28. Index 299
29. Appendix 303