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Language Contact and Change in Chinese
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Edited by:
Guangshun Cao
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
The book sheds light on the fascinating evolution of contact-induced grammatical features in Chinese syntax. For more than two thousand years, Chinese has been in large scale language contact with languages such as Sanskrit, Mongolian, and Manchurian. Originally published in Chinese in renowned academic journals, the contributions are made available for the first time to the English speaking world.
Tracing contact-induced features in Chinese from the 3rd century to the present day.
Second language acquisition is one of the key modes of language contact in history of the Chinese language.
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Cao Guangshun, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China; Yu Hsiao-jung, East Asian Languages/Cultural Studies, UC Santa Barbara, USA.
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Frontmatter
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Foreword
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Contents
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List of Abbreviations
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Theory and fact – A study of the translated Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period from the perspective of language contact
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On the origin of the Chinese reflexive ziji from the perspective of the Medieval Chinese Buddhist scriptures
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The origin and development of negative exclusive particles in the Chinese language
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The postpositions suo 所 and bian 边 in translated Chinese Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period
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Variant reduplication and four-character state adjectives in Yuan Zaju
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The correlation between the Chinese purpose construction “VP + qu (去, ‘go’)” and SOV languages
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On the Han’er Yanyu of the Yuan Dynasty
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A study of the special syntactic features in Yuan baihua
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On the special syntactic features in the vernacular imperial edicts of the early Ming Dynasty (1368–1424)
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The influence of language contact on word order of some minority languages in Southern China
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Second language acquisition and contactinduced language change in the history of the Chinese language
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Postscript
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Index
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eBook published on:
August 5, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9783110612981
Hardcover published on:
August 5, 2019
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110610062
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9
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255
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Keywords for this book
Language contact in China; Syntactic studies; Contact-induced changes; Second language acquisition
Audience(s) for this book
Linguists and students working on language contact studies or social linguistics, or interested in Chinese Buddhist studies
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