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Establishing a Sprachbund in the Western Lingnan region: conceptual and methodological issues

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Abstract

It is well-known that Tai-Kadai languages have affected the typological profiles of Southern Sinitic varieties. For example, compared with their northern sisters, Southern Sinitic varieties display a stronger tendency towards head-initial structures, as in the N–N compounds for expressing the sex of animals and in post-verbal temporal adverbs. Given that the Tai-Kadai languages in China have been in contact with Sinitic for over two millennia, it is quite natural to find signs of Sinitic influence therein. Most remarkably, pre-verbal adjunct phrases and pre-nominal relative clauses, which are extremely atypical of VO languages but distinctive of Sinitic, are attested in some Tai-Kadai languages in Southern China. The prevalence of such typologically unusual traits among different linguistic groups in the Lingnan region of Southern China provides strong support for its status as a linguistic area. Devising and adopting a ‘mutualist’ approach, we analyse the typological data of over 280 language varieties, which we believe illustrates and strongly supports the idea that Western Lingnan qualifies as a linguistic area in its own right according to criteria widely recognized by areal linguists. The approach proposed in this study can be applied to other putative linguistic areas around the world to study the mechanisms and outcomes of contact-induced change under a specific set of ecological conditions.

Keywords: language contact; linguistic area; linguistic typology; Sinitic; Tai-Kadai
Corresponding author: Pui Yiu Szeto, Department of Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong; and Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy, E-mail:

Acknowledgements

Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Workshop on Linguistic Minorities in Asia held at the Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Academic Complex in March 2019, the 29th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 29) held at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in May 2019, and the 24th International Conference on Yue Dialects held at the University of Macau in November 2020. We would like to thank the audience for their insightful feedback. We are also grateful for the very helpful comments and suggestions from the editors and anonymous reviewers of this journal.

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language contact; linguistic area; linguistic typology; Sinitic; Tai-Kadai

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Articles
  3. On the impact of clause order on pronoun resolution: evidence from Spanish
  4. Establishing a Sprachbund in the Western Lingnan region: conceptual and methodological issues
  5. Phonaesthemic alternations in Flemish dialects: a matter of language contact in the emergence of phonaesthesia?
  6. Phonotactic conditions and morphotactic transparency in Mirandese word formation
  7. Toward a functional typology of adpositions: theoretical implications
  8. Expanding the dative semantic map: the functions of the postposition =rā in the Tātic language group
  9. Intonation as a cue to epistemic stance in one type of insubordinate clauses
  10. Book Reviews
  11. Gordon Tucker, Guowen Huang, Lise Fontaine & Edward McDonald: Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar: Convergence and divergence
  12. Christoph Rühlemann: Visual linguistics with R: A practical introduction to quantitative interactional linguistics
  13. Xinren Chen: Exploring identity work in Chinese communication
  14. Pietro Bortone: Language and nationality: Social inferences, cultural differences, and linguistic misconceptions
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