33.2778, Books: Cantonese GIVE and Double-Object Construction: Chin

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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 01:12:35
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Cantonese GIVE and Double-Object Construction: Chin

 


Title: Cantonese GIVE and Double-Object Construction 
Subtitle: Grammaticalization and word order change 
Series Title: Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse   15  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/scld.15 


Author: Andy Chi-on Chin

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257802 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257802 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257802 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211040 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211040 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211040 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 111.30


Abstract:

GIVE is a versatile morpheme in many languages. While there have been
extensive studies on the interplay between the syntax and semantics of GIVE in
many languages, not much has been done in a similar manner on Cantonese, a
member of the Yue dialect group of the Chinese language family. This monograph
reports on the study of GIVE and its associated functions and syntactic
constructions in Cantonese from diachronic, synchronic, and typological
perspectives. Drawing on cross-linguistic data, and 19th century Cantonese
dialect materials, this study first traces the chronological development of
the various functions played by GIVE in Cantonese. It then examines the
double-object construction. Besides the typological features of this
construction in Cantonese, this study investigates the use of the northern
pattern in Cantonese as a result of the increasing influence of Putonghua and
Modern Standard Chinese by means of a sociolinguistic survey with 40 native
speakers of Cantonese.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Yue (yue)


Written In: English  (eng)

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