[Lingtyp] new publication on Diversity in Sinitic Languages

[Hilary Chappell]

Dear Lingtyp colleagues,


For typologists who would like to find out more about Sinitic languages -
apart from standard Mandarin or *putonghua*, I’m pleased to announce the
publication of a new edited volume on *Diversity in Sinitic languages*
(OUP).

     The 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.

     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 (*Sinitic
languages of China: Typological descriptions*).



Cordially,

Hilary


Below, please find the Table of Contents for your interest :





*PART I: Approaches to Diversity in Sinitic Languages*
1: Hilary M. Chappell: Introduction: Ways of tackling diversity in Sinitic
languages
2: Hilary M. Chappell: Linguistic areas in China for differential object
marking, passive, and comparative constructions
3: Alain Peyraube: Grammatical change in Sinitic languages and its relation
to typology


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

*PART III: Individual Studies of Linguistic Micro-Areas*
7: Hilário de Sousa: Language contact in Nanning: Nanning Pinghua and
Nanning Cantonese

8: Sing Sing Ngai: On the origin of special numerals for 'one' in
southeastern China: [kɛi213] in the northwestern Min dialect of Shaowu

9: XuPing Li: Complex pronouns in Wu Chinese: Focalization and
topicalization

10: Weirong Chen: Comparative constructions of inequality in the Southern
Min dialect of Hui'an
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