29.2003, Books: A Grammar of Gan Chinese: Li

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Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 15:01:18
From: Pablo Dominguez Andersen [pablo.dominguez at degruyter.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Gan Chinese: Li

 


Title: A Grammar of Gan Chinese 
Subtitle: The Yichun Language 
Series Title: Sinitic Languages of China  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/491344?format=G 


Author: Xuping Li

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501515798 Pages: 313 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

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.

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.
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.

It will be of interest to linguists who wish to learn more about East Asian
languages, and more specifically Sinitic languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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