Language Contact and Change in Chinese

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2019

Language Contact and Change in Chinese

Edited by: Guangshun Cao and Hsiao-jung Yu

Volume 1 in the series Trends in Chinese Linguistics [TCL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612981

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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.

Author / Editor information

Cao Guangshun, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China; Yu Hsiao-jung, East Asian Languages/Cultural Studies, UC Santa Barbara, USA.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Theory and fact – A study of the translated Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period from the perspective of language contact Hsiao-jung Yu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
On the origin of the Chinese reflexive ziji from the perspective of the Medieval Chinese Buddhist scriptures Guanming Zhu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
The origin and development of negative exclusive particles in the Chinese language Chirui Hu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
The postpositions suo 所 and bian 边 in translated Chinese Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period Changcai Zhao Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Variant reduplication and four-character state adjectives in Yuan Zaju Lansheng Jiang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
The correlation between the Chinese purpose construction “VP + qu (去, ‘go’)” and SOV languages Yonglong Yang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
On the Han’er Yanyu of the Yuan Dynasty Shengli Zu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
A study of the special syntactic features in Yuan baihua Guangshun Cao and Dandan Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
On the special syntactic features in the vernacular imperial edicts of the early Ming Dynasty (1368–1424) Dandan Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
The influence of language contact on word order of some minority languages in Southern China Yunbing Li Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Second language acquisition and contactinduced language change in the history of the Chinese language Guangshun Cao and Hsiao-jung Yu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Postscript Guangshun Cao and Hsiao-jung Yu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguists and students working on language contact studies or social linguistics, or interested in Chinese Buddhist studies
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 255
Illustrations
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Language contact in China; Syntactic studies; Contact-induced changes; Second language acquisition

eBook

Published: August 5, 2019
ISBN: 9783110612981

Hardcover

Published: August 5, 2019
ISBN: 9783110610062