The Typology of Motion Events

ISBN-13: 9783110335774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 425 str.

Yuk-Man Yiu, Carine

Opis

This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wu, 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.

O autorze

Carine Yuk-man Yiu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China.