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A Reference Grammar of Caijia - Shanshan Lü

A Reference Grammar of Caijia

An Unclassified Language of Guizhou

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
XXVIII, 600 Seiten
2024
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-163170-7 (ISBN)
CHF 41,90 inkl. MwSt

Caijia, [me ²¹ni³³ o ³³] 'Caijia speech', is an endangered language in the Sino-Tibetan family with less than 1000 speakers in Hezhang and Weining counties in northwest in Guizhou Province in Southwest China. Its sub-classification remains unclear. It was almost four decades ago when the Caijia language was officially reported for the first time in 1982 by the Language Team of Bureau of Ethnic Identification in Bijie, yet this language has nevertheless remained neither well-described nor studied. This book, a linguistic description of the Xingfa variety of Caijia based on the fieldwork data in Xingfa township of Hezhang county, is the first reference grammar of the Caijia language, covering its sound system, word formation, parts of speech and syntactic structures in fifteen chapters.

Being analytic, Caijia presents many common grammatical features attested in East and Southeast Asian languages, for example, compounds, quadrisyllabic idiomatic expressions or elaborate expressions, lack of inflection, a classifier system, a strong relationship between nominalization and relativization, pro-drop and grammaticalization of verbs. Moreover, Caijia shares more similarities with Sinitic languages. Apart from these common areal features, this book will also reveal some special features of Caijia.

Shanshan Lü, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Sinitic Languages of China [SLCH] ; 8
Zusatzinfo 13 b/w ill., 61 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort Basel/Berlin/Boston
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 230 mm
Gewicht 1070 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte Caijia • grammar • Grammatik • Sinitic Languages • Sinitische Sprachen • Typologie • Typology
ISBN-10 3-11-163170-2 / 3111631702
ISBN-13 978-3-11-163170-7 / 9783111631707
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