Carine Yuk-man Yiu, "The Typology of Motion Events"
Carine Yuk-man Yiu, "The Typology of Motion Events"
Publisher: De Gruyter | 2013 | ISBN: 3110335778 | English | PDF | 405 pages | 14.8 Mb
Publisher: De Gruyter | 2013 | ISBN: 3110335778 | English | PDF | 405 pages | 14.8 Mb
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."
Carine Yuk-man Yiu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China.
Carine Yuk-man Yiu, "The Typology of Motion Events"
