<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">For your bookshelf on Chinese, the first volume of a new series with De Gruyter Mouton on 'Sinitic languages of China' will appear this month on Yichun, a language which belongs to the Gan branch of Sinitic and is situated in a linguistically transitional zone of central China. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">H. Chappell</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">"<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp@listserv.<wbr>linguistlist.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp@listserv.<wbr>linguistlist.org</a>><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail-adn gmail-ads" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:8px;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin-left:44px"><div id="gmail-:3mv" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="font-size:19.2px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div id="gmail-:3mw" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aXjCH gmail-m161187aa172233c4"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail-m_1169801161230576694m_-179069830495638206gmail-m_-8591120822793639987gmail-m_-5561601777970958749gmail-titleGroup" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.153em;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"><div style="font-family:Arial"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/491344?format=G" target="_blank"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">https://www.degruyter.com/view<wbr>/product/491344?format=G</a><br></div><div><br></div></div><h3 class="gmail-m_1169801161230576694m_-179069830495638206gmail-m_-8591120822793639987gmail-m_-5561601777970958749gmail-author" style="font-family:Arial;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.572em;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.384em"><font color="#000000" size="2"><br></font></h3><h3 class="gmail-m_1169801161230576694m_-179069830495638206gmail-m_-8591120822793639987gmail-m_-5561601777970958749gmail-author" style="font-family:Arial;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.572em;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.384em"><font color="#000000" size="1">Li, Xuping</font></h3><h1 id="gmail-m_1169801161230576694m_-179069830495638206gmail-m_-8591120822793639987gmail-m_-5561601777970958749gmail-mainTitle" class="gmail-m_1169801161230576694m_-179069830495638206gmail-m_-8591120822793639987gmail-m_-5561601777970958749gmail-pub-title" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.2em"><font size="1"><font color="#000000">A Grammar of Gan Chinese:</font>The Yichun Language</font></h1></div><p class="gmail-m_1169801161230576694m_-179069830495638206gmail-m_-8591120822793639987gmail-m_-5561601777970958749gmail-series" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.834em;line-height:1.333em;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"><font color="#000000"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit">Series:</strong><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/468477" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.333em">Sinitic Languages of China</a> 1</font></p><div class="gmail-m_1169801161230576694m_-179069830495638206gmail-m_-8591120822793639987gmail-m_-5561601777970958749gmail-publisherTextLabel gmail-m_1169801161230576694m_-179069830495638206gmail-m_-8591120822793639987gmail-m_-5561601777970958749gmail-group" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.834em;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"><font color="#000000">DE GRUYTER MOUTON, January 2018</font></div></div><div><h3 id="gmail-m_1169801161230576694m_-179069830495638206gmail-m_-8591120822793639987gmail-m_-5561601777970958749gmail-overviewTitle" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.187em;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:1.231em;line-height:1.125em;font-family:Arial,sans-serif,TLLMedium;color:rgb(42,42,42)">Aims and Scope</h3><div id="gmail-m_1169801161230576694m_-179069830495638206gmail-m_-8591120822793639987gmail-m_-5561601777970958749gmail-overviewContent" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:Arial"><div id="gmail-m_1169801161230576694m_-179069830495638206gmail-m_-8591120822793639987gmail-m_-5561601777970958749engContent" style="box-sizing:inherit">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.<br style="box-sizing:inherit">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.<br style="box-sizing:inherit">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.<br style="box-sizing:inherit">It will be of interest to linguists who wish to learn more about East Asian languages, and more specifically Sinitic languages.</div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div></div><div class="gmail-adL"><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-hq gmail-gt gmail-a10" id="gmail-:3lv" style="font-size:19.2px"><div id="gmail-:3ls"></div><div class="gmail-aQH" id="gmail-:3lt"><div class="gmail-aZK"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-hi"></div></div><div class="gmail-ajx"></div></div><div class="gmail-gA gmail-gt gmail-acV" style="font-size:19.2px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-top:none;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><div class="gmail-gB gmail-xu"><div class="gmail-ip gmail-iq" style="margin-right:5px;padding-top:12px;padding-right:0px;padding-left:8px;border-top:1px solid rgb(216,216,216)"></div></div></div></div></div>