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An Etymological Study of Disposal and Passive Markers in Hunan Dialects

Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Jun 1, 1999

Studies in Chinese lexicology: investigations into the Xiang dialect

© 1992 Dr. Yunji WuAny speaker of a non-standard Chinese dialect has some familiarity with a numb... more © 1992 Dr. Yunji WuAny speaker of a non-standard Chinese dialect has some familiarity with a number of written and spoken varieties of the Chinese language, both dialectal and standard. The knowledge of these varieties, and of relationships between them, is an essential characteristic of a dialect speaker's linguistic competence in Chinese, and the complexity of this knowledge presents one of the greatest difficulties for the linguist in charting the synchronic structures and diachronic development of Chinese. The challenge begins for the native speaker, who must negotiate their way through this linguistic milieu. It extends to and dominates the work of contemporary Chinese dialectologists, the products of whose research cannot be properly understood unless one has a clear grasp of both the Chinese dialect speaker's complex linguistic world, and also the traditional means by which Chinese researchers have developed to represent this world. This thesis attempts to tackle this challenge through a discussion of problems concerning the status and organization of the Changsha dialect. The main focus is upon the formative: the monosyllabic morpheme, which, from the perspective of the Chinese speaker, is the fundamental unit in word formation. The arrangement and rearrangement of phonological-semantic relationships between formatives within and across dialects will be explored through a discussion of types of local words (Chapter 3), interactions between different varieties, both written and spoken" standard and local (Chapter 4), and the problem of representation of local words in characters (Chapter 5). Chapters 1 and 2 provide a general introduction to these issues, and also to the linguistic situation of Hunan, the province of which Changsha is the capital

Chapter 10. The evolution of double-object and 催 de constructions in the Xiang dialects

Chapter 3. Morphology and its evolution in the Xiang dialects

A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of the Grammar of the Chinese Xiang Dialects

Chapter 4. Pronouns and their evolution in the Xiang dialects

Chapter 1. The spoken language of the Xiang dialects

A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of the Grammar of the Chinese Xiang Dialects

Chapter 5. Adverbs and their evolution in the Xiang dialects

Chapter 8. The evolution of structural particles in the Xiang dialects

Chapter 6. The evolution of passive and disposal constructions in the Xiang Dialects

Chapter 7. Aspectual markers and their evolution in the Xiang dialects

A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of the Grammar of the Chinese Xiang Dialects

Chapter 2. Written language of the Xiang dialects

Comitative source for object markers in Sinitic Pre-publication 2011

A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of the Grammar of the Chinese Xiang Dialects

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The Locative Words in the Waxiang Dialect

Space in languages of China: cross-linguistic, …, 2008

... psychology, neurocognition, linguistics and elsewhere (Asifa Majid et al., 2004: 108 ... zy k... more ... psychology, neurocognition, linguistics and elsewhere (Asifa Majid et al., 2004: 108 ... zy khai lin la/nuei Ta va khua larj 3nd Sg month inside to have CL sweet 'There is a sweet in his mouth (invisible).' Only the above examples which have contrasts between [la],[lin ta] and [nuei la ...

A comitative source for object markers in Sinitic languages: 跟kai 55 in Waxiang and 共kang 7 in Southern Min

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2011

This analysis sets out to specifically discuss the polyfunctionality of 跟 [kai 55 ] in Waxiang (S... more This analysis sets out to specifically discuss the polyfunctionality of 跟 [kai 55 ] in Waxiang (Sinitic), whose lexical source is the verb 'to follow'. Amongst its various uses, we find a preposition 'with, along', a marker of adjuncts and a NP conjunction, thus superficially resembling its Mandarin cognate 跟 gēn 'with'. Curiously, however, it has also evolved into a direct object marker in Waxiang, with a function similar to that of preposition 把 bă < 'hold, take' as found in the S-bă-O-VP or so-called 'disposal' form in standard Mandarin. The pathways of grammaticalization for 跟 [kai 55 ] in Waxiang are thus discussed in order to determine how it has developed this unusual grammatical function in one of the linguistic zones of China where verbs of giving or taking are, in fact, the main source for grammaticalized object markers in 'disposal' constructions. On the basis of 16 th and 17 th century Southern Min literature (Sinitic), a comparison is also made with analogous developments for comitative 共 gòng 'with' to provide support for our hypothesis that the direct object marking use has evolved from the oblique function of a benefactive or dative, and is clearly separate from the crosslinguistically well-attested pathway that leads to its use as a conjunction. We would thus like to propose that these data contribute a new pattern to the stock of 6 The symbol is used for any syllable which has no known corresponding Chinese character. 7 Note that the word for 'carpenter' in example (12) is different from that in example (4) due to different informants. 16 The tone mark indicates the tonal category instead of the tonal quality for convenience of comparison: 1. 阴平 Yīnpíng, 2. 阳平 Yángpíng, 3. 上声 Shǎngshēng, 4. 去声 Qùshēng and 5. 入声 Rùshēng respectively. In dialects which distinguish all the 阴 Yīn and 阳 Yáng registers, the one tone mark will stand for both of them. For example, the tone mark 4 stands for both 阴去 Yīnqù and 阳去 Yángqù. 19 Note that the Jishou dialect also has the locative 'along' use of 跟 gēn but its polsyemy does not extend to the object marking use: 20 Note that phonetic transcriptions were not provided in the original data. For the convenience of quotation, we have adopted the practice of romanizing such examples in the pīnyīn system devised for Mandarin but using small capitals to signal the fact it does not indicate the pronunciation of the given Mandarin dialect. 21 We do not wish to suggest here that only geographically isolated languages can undergo the development from comitative > accusative, as one of our reviewers has queried with reason. Rather, the objective here is to provide a possible explanation as to why Waxiang did not adopt or borrow the marker ba that is predominant in surrounding dialects of Southwestern Mandarin. 31 The characters for 有德 yu tec are missing, indicated by '__'.

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The Locative Words in The Waxiang Dialect Spoken in Guzhang, Hunan

Space in Languages of China, 2008

An Etymological Study of Disposal and Passive Markers in Hunan Dialects

Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Jun 1, 1999

Studies in Chinese lexicology: investigations into the Xiang dialect

Chapter 10. The evolution of double-object and 催 de constructions in the Xiang dialects

Chapter 3. Morphology and its evolution in the Xiang dialects

A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of the Grammar of the Chinese Xiang Dialects

Chapter 4. Pronouns and their evolution in the Xiang dialects

Chapter 1. The spoken language of the Xiang dialects

A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of the Grammar of the Chinese Xiang Dialects

Chapter 5. Adverbs and their evolution in the Xiang dialects

Chapter 8. The evolution of structural particles in the Xiang dialects

Chapter 6. The evolution of passive and disposal constructions in the Xiang Dialects

Chapter 7. Aspectual markers and their evolution in the Xiang dialects

A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of the Grammar of the Chinese Xiang Dialects

Chapter 2. Written language of the Xiang dialects

Comitative source for object markers in Sinitic Pre-publication 2011

A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of the Grammar of the Chinese Xiang Dialects

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The Locative Words in the Waxiang Dialect

Space in languages of China: cross-linguistic, …, 2008

A comitative source for object markers in Sinitic languages: 跟kai 55 in Waxiang and 共kang 7 in Southern Min

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2011

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The Locative Words in The Waxiang Dialect Spoken in Guzhang, Hunan

Space in Languages of China, 2008

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