By Hilary M. Chappell
Featuring new examine into the good structural variety present in sinitic languages, this paintings attracts on wide empirical information from lesser-known languages and seeks to dispel many recurrent linguistic myths concerning the Sinitic language family.
summary: offering new examine into the nice structural variety present in sinitic languages, this paintings attracts on huge empirical information from lesser-known languages and seeks to dispel many recurrent linguistic myths in regards to the Sinitic language kinfolk
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G. on causative sources). It should be pointed out, however, that the marker BÈI is closely associated with the history of passive constructions in Chinese, and is attested in this use from the beginning of the Medieval period (third–thirteenth century, Peyraube a). The BÈI passive also tends to have a relatively higher frequency in corpora of contemporary Standard Mandarin or pŭtonghuà, based mainly on written genres and particularly in its agentless form, when compared with other passive constructions (for statistics, see Xiao et al.
Traditional classifications of Chinese dialects have mainly been based on phonology—and the lexicon to a lesser extent. In this analysis, the illustrations will be given in terms of morphosyntax and grammaticalization pathways in order to see if these can yield a new approach to dialect classification in China. To this end, differential object marking, passive and comparative constructions are examined for the ten main Sinitic languages. Classifications of the Sinitic branch of Sino-Tibetan and the issue of linguistic areas The general consensus is that Sinitic or Chinese languages form a sister branch to Tibeto-Burman languages in the Sino-Tibetan language family.
The Southwestern area of CONTACT class verbs forming SUFFER-type passives covers Yunnan, Guizhou, the southern region of Sichuan, parts of Hubei, and the western regions in both Hunan and the Guangxi Autonomous Region. It includes a large proportion of the Southwestern Mandarin subgroup, some Pinghua dialects in Guangxi and a few Xiang dialects. We pointed out that it is precisely this area which is contiguous with a large number of unrelated Southeast Asian languages that also use CONTACT verbs as a source for agent markers.