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The Typology of Motion Events

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  • 28 November 2013
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This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wú, Hakka, Min and Cantonese. The author shows that these dialects form a continuum with some exhibiting more characteristics of a verb-framed language than the others. The phenomenon reflects the various stages of typological transformation and grammaticalization that the dialects have undergone.

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Price: $210.00
Pages: 425
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date: 28 November 2013
ISBN: 9783110335774
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: LAN016000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LIT008000 LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General
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Carine Yuk-man Yiu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China.