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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)">Dear Lingtyp colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)">For typologists who would like to find out more about Sinitic languages - apart from standard Mandarin or <i>putonghua</i>, I’m
pleased to announce the publication of a new edited volume on <i>Diversity in Sinitic languages</i> (OUP). </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)">     </span><span style="line-height:16.8pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)">The</span><span style="line-height:16.8pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> volume
investigates different aspects of the enormous structural and morphological diversity
found in Sinitic languages. It draws on extensive empirical data from
lesser-known languages, while seeking to dispel many recurrent linguistic myths
about the Sinitic language family.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="color:rgb(88,89,91);font-family:Verdana;line-height:16.8pt">     In
fact, it is the first outcome of the ERC project « The hybrid syntactic
typology of Sinitic languages » and will be followed by a new series of
Sinitic grammars to be published by De Gruyter (</span><i style="color:rgb(88,89,91);font-family:Verdana;line-height:16.8pt">Sinitic languages of China: Typological descriptions</i><span style="color:rgb(88,89,91);font-family:Verdana;line-height:16.8pt">).</span><br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)">Cordially,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)">Hilary </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)">Below, please find the Table
of Contents for your interest :</span><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)">PART
I: Approaches to Diversity in Sinitic Languages</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)"><br>
1: Hilary M. Chappell: Introduction: Ways of tackling diversity in Sinitic
languages<br>
2: Hilary M. Chappell: Linguistic areas in China for differential object marking,
passive, and comparative constructions<br>
3: Alain Peyraube: Grammatical change in Sinitic languages and its relation to
typology</span></p>

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<b>PART II: Typological Studies of Sinitic Languages</b><br>
4: Yujie Chen: The semantic differentiation of demonstratives in Sinitic languages<br>
5: Wang Jian: Bare classifier phrases in Sinitic languages: A typological
perspective<br>
6: Hilary M. Chappell and Alain Peyraube: The comparative construction in
Sinitic languages: Synchronic and diachronic variation</span></p>

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<b>PART III: Individual Studies of Linguistic Micro-Areas</b><br>
7: Hilário de Sousa: Language contact in Nanning: Nanning Pinghua and Nanning
Cantonese</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)"><br>
8: Sing Sing Ngai: On the origin of special numerals for 'one' in southeastern
China: [k</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(88,89,91)">ɛ</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)">i213] in the northwestern Min dialect of Shaowu</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)"><br>
9: XuPing Li: Complex pronouns in Wu Chinese: Focalization and topicalization</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(88,89,91)"><br>
10: Weirong Chen: Comparative constructions of inequality in the Southern Min
dialect of Hui'an</span>    <br></div></div>