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A Grammar of Gan Chinese

The Yichun Language
  • Xuping Li
Languages: English, Chinese
Published/Copyright: 2018
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Sinitic Languages of China [SLCH]

About this book

China is very rich in language resources, and Mandarin is undoubtedly its most prestigious and well-known representative. Unfortunately, most of these languages remain understudied or even unstudied. Such is the case of Yichun Gan.
Written in the style of a reference grammar, this book sets out to give a comprehensive and systematic description of Yichun grammar, with the aim of increasing readers' knowledge about Chinese languages other than Mandarin. In addition to common categories like nouns, verbs, adjectives and prepositions, the volume attempts to cover as many grammatical categories and constructions as possible, including the Sinitic-specific categories such as classifiers, the aspect system, postpositions and the object-marking BA constructions.
To highlight its uniqueness, the book adopts a comparative perspective to contrast many features of Yichun Gan with Mandarin and other Sinitic languages. Our study shows that Yichun Gan possesses both Northern and Southern Chinese traits in many constructions, which supports its status as a transitional language.
It will be of interest to linguists who wish to learn more about East Asian languages, and more specifically Sinitic languages.

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XuPing LI, Zhejiang University, China

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    Acknowledgements

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    Preface

    vii
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    List of abbreviations

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    Contents

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    1. Gan and the Gan People

    1
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    2. The Yichun sound system

    13
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    3. Morphology

    23
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    4. Personal pronouns

    43
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    5. Possessives

    51
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    6. Demonstratives

    61
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    7. Numerals and classifiers

    73
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    8. Adjectives and adjective phrases

    87
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    9. Prepositions

    103
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    10. Postpositions

    117
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    11. Aspectuality

    127
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    12. Modality

    151
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    13. Negation

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    14. Resultative constructions

    175
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    15. Ditransitives

    185
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    16. BA constructions

    201
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    17. Passives and causatives

    213
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    18. Topic and focus related constructions

    225
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    19. Relative clauses

    241
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    20. Interrogatives

    255
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    21. Clause linking: coordination and subordination

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    References

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    Index

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    Appendix

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eBook published on:
February 19, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9781501507328
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February 19, 2018
Hardcover ISBN:
9781501515798
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Front matter:
18
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313
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501507328
eBook ISBN: 9781501507328
Hardcover ISBN: 9781501515798
Keywords for this book
Yichun Gan; Sinitic Language; Grammar; Language Typology
Audience(s) for this book
Language Typologists, Chinese Dialectologists and Chinese Linguists.
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