37.86, Books: Language Contact in Northern China: Djamouri, Lamarre, and Lefort (eds.) (2025)

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Subject: 37.86, Books: Language Contact in Northern China: Djamouri, Lamarre, and Lefort (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 07-Jan-2026
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: Language Contact in Northern China: Djamouri, Lamarre, and Lefort (eds.) (2025)


Title: Language Contact in Northern China
Subtitle: Chinese and its Neighbouring Languages
Series Title: Languages of Asia
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
           https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/71180

Editor(s): Redouane Djamouri, Christine Lamarre, and Julie Lefort

Hardback ISBN: 978-90-04-75003-6
E-book ISBN: 978-90-04-75008-1 (Open Access)

Abstract:

What happens when Chinese is shaped by centuries of contact with
Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic, and Tibetic languages? This volume
explores this question through striking case studies of lects like
Tangwang and Wutun, where Chinese exhibits unexpected features such as
OV word order, case suffixes, and restructured verbal morphology.
Drawing on rare fieldwork data, this volume reveals how deep
multilingual interaction transforms grammatical systems. It offers a
unique contribution to the study of language change, typology, and
contact linguistics—essential reading for anyone interested in how
languages evolve in complex sociolinguistic environments.
Readership: This book targets scholars, postgraduate students, and
libraries in Chinese linguistics, typology, language contact, and East
Asian studies, offering essential insights into multilingualism and
grammatical change in Northern China.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Chinese (zho)

Language Family(ies): Chinese

Written In: English (eng)



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