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The Typology of Motion Events

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The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the...
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  • November 28, 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: November 28, 2013
ISBN: 9783110335774
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics
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Carine Yuk-man Yiu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China.