Diachronic Perspectives and Synchronic Variation in Southern Min

ISBN-13: 9780367313579 / Chiński / Twarda / 2020 / 242 str.

Chinfa Lien; Alain Peyraube

Opis

Diachronic Perspectives and Synchronic Variation in Southern Min aims to address a range of grammatical phenomena in Southern Min.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Comparatives of inequality in Southern Min: a study in diachronic change from 15th to 21st centuries, Hilary Chappell, Alain Peyraube, Song Na; 3. The emergence of obligative modal tioh⁸ in Southern Min: a change induced by semantic-pragmatic factors, Ting-ting Christina Hsu; 4. Negation of dynamic modals with DIT 得 in Hainan Min, Huichi Lee; 5. Word change and language change: a case of 共 as a coordinating conjunction from Archaic Chinese gòng 共 to ka⁷ 共 in Taiwanese Southern Min Lin, Jang Ling Lin; 6. Exploration of the benefactive marker kang⁷ 共 in Ming Qing Southern Min script, Chian-tang Su; 7. Taiwanese Southern Min hoo⁷ and its counterparts in the Southern Min varieties in Quemoy and Quanzhou, Chai-yin Hu; 8. The etymology and grammaticalization of the continuative aspect marker le(h)⁴: a survey from the historical documents, Manjun Chen; 9. Kong² as a verb for saying 'on the move' in Taiwanese Southern Min, Chinfa Lien; 10. Purposives in Taiwanese Southern Min, Chinfa Lien and May Wang