University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. — 332 p. This dissertation discusses the Xining Mandarin dialect (spoken in Qinghai province, northwest China), a variety in which head-final syntax has emerged on the model of local Mongolic languages and Tibetan. The underlying socio-historical scenario is explored in detail and analysed as a case of 'fort creolization' (Bickerton...
De Gruyter, 2000. — 477 p. This book discusses the methodology of systematic Chinese Dialect classification, with particular attention to the conservative Miin and Hakka groups spoken in southern China. The primary linguistic methodology employed is the historical-comparative method, and the dialects chosen as examples of classification are those spoken in and around the township...
Beijing: De Gruyter Mouton, 2013. — 405 p. 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...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2010. — 146 p. Wu (2003) investigated a number of coordinative conjunctions and stated that the coordinative conjunctions in Chinese were developed through the grammaticalization path: verb > comitative preposition > coordinative conjunction. Liu and Peyraube (1994) studied the historical texts from pre-Qin to Song Dynasties and...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2014. — 99 p. There is a growing body of work investigating the phonetic properties of tones and seeking potential explanations for tonal changes. The main purpose of this paper is to shed light on entering tone sound change — a recalcitrant problem in Chinese linguistics and phonological theory — through a case study of Puxian...
The Ohio State University, 2016. — 301 p. The Dapeng dialect is a small local dialect spoken by 3,000 to 5,500 speakers in the Dapeng area, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. It is a variety derived from a mixture of Hakka and Cantonese, two of the major varieties of Chinese in Southern China. The Dapeng dialect has hitherto received very little attention from Chinese...
Purdue University, 2021. — 281 p. This study analyzes the syntactic structure of motion predicates in Mandarin, with a specific focus on how the language expresses paths of motion and telicity. It adopts a generative-constructionist model called the Exo-Skeletal Model. Data were gathered from three native speakers of Mandarin living in Taiwan, using video prompts depicting...
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, 2015. — 620 p. Gan or Kan is a group of Sinitic languages spoken natively by many people in the Jiangxi province of China, as well as significant populations in surrounding regions such as Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, and Fujian. Gan is a member of the Sinitic languages of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and Hakka is the closest Chinese...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004. — 92 p. This thesis seeks to answer two questions: 1. What is the distinctive feature of implosives that marks them out from voiced stops and other sounds? This is the area in which the classic definition of implosives has given rise to most confusion. 2. Why are implosives phonologically so close to sonorants? The previous...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2011. — 214 p. In the vast majority of northwestern Chinese dialects (NWDs) spoken in Shanxi 山西, Shaanxi 陕西, Qinghai 青海, Ningxia 宁夏, Gansu 甘肃, Xinjiang 新疆, and Inner Mongolia 内蒙古, the aspect marker -ZHE 着 has a number of peculiar characteristics. The most prominent one is that it takes a special position where no verb suffix is...
Nanyang Technological University, 2019. — 155 p. This thesis describes the development of Zhong, a computational resource grammar for Chinese, in the framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG: Pollard & Sag, 1994) using Minimal Recursion Semantics (Copestake et al., 2005). In order to increase the grammar’s coverage for practical applications, a corpus-driven...
Lincom Europa, 2000. — 116 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 340). Kunming Chinese, commonly regarded as lingua franca of Yunnan province, is a major variety of Yunnanese, a member of Southwestern Mandarin. Based primarily on the linguistic typology and geographic distribution, Kunming Chinese has been further classified in one of the four major subgroups of Yunnanese:...
Lincom Europa, 2001. — 147 p. — (LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 28). This is an interdisciplinary study composed of extensive research and detailed analyses of Yunnanese, a Southwestern Mandarin language spoken in Yunnan, China, and Kunming Chinese--one of its major varieties spoken in the city of Kunming. The research work is conducted in three major areas: the language...
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. — x, 261 p. — ISBN: 0824828836. For centuries the sub-national languages of China have been a fundamental feature in daily life and popular culture, while a standardized form of Mandarin has been adopted as the language of the state (including education). Suppressed during powerful movements to establish a modern, national culture,...
University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2022. — 203 p. Xiāng Dialect has been proposed as a sub-branch of Chinese for ninety years, though its status is still heavily contested among scholars. The lack of an identifiable uniquely shared innovation among the Xiāng dialects is a major obstacle faced with the efforts towards any taxonomic classification. Recent study has suggested...
Routledge, 2022. — 516 p. As the first volume of a two-volume set that presents a comprehensive syntactical picture of Singapore Mandarin, this title discusses the distinguishing characteristics of the Chinese language and describes the grammar of Singapore Mandarin. The book first provides an overview of the grammar of Singapore Mandarin and compares it with Chinese Mandarin...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2015. — 322 p. Diphthongs are troublesome for researchers by its internal duality in both phonetics and phonology. This study is a comprehensive investigation on the phonetic representations of diphthongs with their phonological properties concerned. There are four main topics that have been focused on in this study. The first one...
University of Washington, 2023. — 212 p. The focus of this study is on the hardening phenomenon found in the Xiāng dialects of the Chinese language family. According to Coblin (2011: 47), hardening is the phenomenon referring here to a previous dental, retroflex, or palatal affricate becoming a dental or retroflex stop in the Xiāng dialects. Some Xiāng dialects also exhibit...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. — xviii + 314 p. — (Sinitic Languages of China [SLCH] 1). China is very rich in language resources, and Mandarin is undoubtedly its most prestigious and well-known representative. Unfortunately, most of these languages remain understudied or even unstudied. Such is the case of Yichun Gan. Written in the style of a reference grammar, this book sets out...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. — 331 p. — (Sinitic Languages of China 1). China is very rich in language resources, and Mandarin is undoubtedly its most prestigious and well-known representative. Unfortunately, most of these languages remain understudied or even unstudied. Such is the case of Yichun Gan. Written in the style of a reference grammar, this book sets out to give a...
University of Kansas, 2010. — 72 p. Abstract In this thesis, a durational study and a tonal contrast study were conducted to investigate the tonal inventories in syllables with different rhyme durations in Nanchang Chinese, a dialect spoken in southeast China. The findings show that the tonal inventory is reduced in lexically stressless syllables, which have shorter rhyme...
Routledge, 2023. — 438 p. As the second volume of a two-volume set that presents a comprehensive syntactical picture of Singapore Mandarin, this title analyses various expressions relating to number, quantity, time and place, composite sentences and the characteristics and standardisation of Singapore Mandarin. The first two chapters discuss expressions of number, quantity,...
Leiden University, 2017. — 281 p. This thesis investigates the morpho-syntax of the aspectual system in one variety of Xiāng (namely: Chángshā), which is one of the ten sub-families of Chinese. Two of the idiosyncratic properties in Xiāng Chinese is that one aspect marker is used to express more than one meaning or that more than one element is used to express one aspectual...
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 576 p. Matthew Chen's landmark study offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the rich and complex patterns of tone used in Chinese languages. Chinese has a wide repertoire of tones that undergo often surprising changes when they are connected in speech flow. This tonal alternation is known as tone sandhi. Chen examines...
Lincom Europa, 2001. — 147 p. — ISBN10: 3895866350; ISBN13: 978-3895866357. А study of the language communities, the phonological systems, and the phonological developments. This is an interdisciplinary study composed of extensive research and detailed analyses of Yunnanese, a Southwestern Mandarin language spoken in Yunnan, China, and Kunming Chinese — one of its major...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 733 p. — (Sinitic Languages of China 5). This is the first comprehensive grammar of Shaowu, a Min language spoken in Shaowu city and its environs in northwestern Fujian province, China. The book offers first-hand linguistic data collected over four years in the field, now placed at the disposal of researchers and students working in language...
Paris, INALCO, 2022. — 559 p. This thesis studies the Cenchuan dialect, a Sinitic language of Hunan Province in China. Locating in the transitional zone of Xiang and Gan dialects, the Cenchuan dialect possesses many “hybrid characteristics” on the phonology, morphology and syntax, which makes the classification of the Cenchuan dialect difficult. In order to have a full-scale...
SIL International East Asia, 2000. — 39 р. This brief introduction to the Kunming dialect is intended to help the reader begin to make the adjustments from standard Mandarin - 普通话. We assume familiarity with standard Mandarin. We have made no attempt to follow any rigorous theory of phonology, but desire to be simply descriptive. There are several other sources one can consult...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2012. — 86 p. This study seeks to describe and analyze the phonetic properties of Shibei variety of Northern Min Chinese, and demonstrate how an acoustic analysis may be done to the tonal system and segmental phonology of a Chinese dialect. The study gives a detailed analysis of the complex tonal system in Shibei, with its nine...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2016. — 146 p. Uncovering the magnitude and range of lawful variation in speech ranks as one of the major goals of linguistic science in general and instrumental phonetics in particular (Ohala 2003, 670). However, the wealth of phonetic variation revealed by instrumental phonetics presents linguists with an as-yet-unsolved...
Leiden University, 2020. — 252 p. This dissertation provides a comprehensive look at the consonant-tone interaction embedded in a description of the sound system of two under-documented Chinese dialects, namely Lili Wu Chinese and Shuangfeng Xiang Chinese. In the existing literature, consonant-tone interaction generally concerns a [voiceless/H]-[voiced/L] co-occurrence pattern....
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 52, 681 p. — (Sinitic Languages of China [SLCH] 5). This is the first comprehensive grammar of Shaowu, a Min language spoken in Shaowu city and its environs in northwestern Fujian province, China. The book offers first-hand linguistic data collected over four years in the field, now placed at the disposal of researchers and students...
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales - INALCO Paris - Langues O', 2020. — 368 p. This study focuses on the temporal, aspectual, modal and evidential (TAME) values of clause-final enclitic particles in the Mandarin dialect spoken in Baoding (Hebei, China). These unstressed particles perform various semantic and pragmatic functions, but some of them also...
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales. — INALCO Paris - Langues O', 2020. — 415 p. The thesis studies path expressions within a typological and functional framework. It contributes to the description of Chaozhou, a Sinitic language belonging to the Southern Min Group, spoken in Guangdong, China, by analyzing the forms that encode path and can introduce a...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2010. — 224 p. Diminutives are words formed by a morphological device that adds a semantic element of smallness to the meaning of the stem. This thesis seeks to present a systematic investigation of diminutives in Siyi, a subgroup of Yue spoken in the southwest of the Pearl River Delta. The Siyi dialect generally employs bianyin...
Utrecht: LOT, 2009. — 284 p. — ISBN 978-94-6093-001-0. This study examines the mutual intelligibility between all 225 pairs of 15 Chinese dialects, in two main branches, i.e., six Mandarin dialects and nine non-Mandarin (Southern) dialects. The dialects (often distinct languages by western standards) differ in the richness of their lexical tone inventories, ranging between four...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2015. — 208 p. On the Jianghan Plain of China, the non-clear phonation types, falsetto and breathy, are used for phonological distinctions and the dialectal varieties are uni-, di- or tri-phonational. We investigate five towns on the Jianghan Plain – Songzi, Gong’an, Shishou, Jianli and Shayang where the multi-phonational dialects...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2011. — 104 p. Songzi of Hubei, located at a boundary area influenced by Xiang and Gan, now is classified into Subgroup Changhe of Southwestern Mandarin though it is quite distinct from the other members in this subgroup. It is also at the southern tip of a narrow area dividing Hubei into two dialectal parts with or without...
Lancaster University, 2010. — 376 p. Puxian, a Min dialect of China, has many significant linguistic features. Based on a corpus of spoken data, this thesis sets out to examine aspects of the grammar of pronominal expressions in Puxian, focusing especially on three prominent issues in the linguistic literature, viz. impersonality, reflexive markings and Person effects on...
Beijing: De Gruyter Mouton, 2005. — 462 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 162). This is the first book in Chinese linguistics which discusses the grammar of a dialect group from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. The author uses new data and new frameworks to present an analysis of the grammar of the Xiang dialect spoken in Hunan, China. The...
Routledge, 2022. — 215 p. This book is the first volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect of Northern Shaanxi Province in China, with a focus on the grammatical features of pronouns, aspect and appearance, and the system of tenses. The Jin dialect of Northern Shaanxi is one of the most ancient, complicated, and representative...
Michigan State University, 2020. — 201 p. In Chinese languages, when two syllables merge into one that has the segments from both, the segments compete to survive in the limited time slots (Chung, 1996, 1997; Lin, 2007). The survival or deletion of segment(s) follows a series of rules, including the Edge-In Effect (Yip, 1988) and vowel selection (R.-F. Chung, 1996, 1997; Hsu,...
Springer, 2017. — 196 p. — ISBN10: 3319592289, 13 978-3319592282. This book studies the Tangwang language, providing the first comprehensive grammar in English of this Chinese variety, with detailed analysis of its phonology, morphology, and syntax. This fills a gap in the literature, as previously only a few articles on this language were available. The book takes an...
University of Kansas, 2013. — 61 p. The complex tone sandhi patterns of Chinese dialects present analytical challenges to theoretical phonology, and productivity tests can help us address the issue from another perspective. Previous studies have shown that sandhi productivity is negatively affected by phonological opacity, positively affected by clear phonetic motivations, and...
Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2006. — (LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics 22). — viii, 286 p. — ISBN 9783895866296. This volume accurately reflects the current state of Chinese dialectology. The development of the field is recounted in such detail that possibly every twentieth century study of Chinese dialects - in both Chinese and English - is referenced. Just as readers will...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2015. — 118 p. Four sets of parameters under two modes are designed to quantify citation form’s tonal variation. Chongqing Dialect is selected to test the effectiveness of these parameters. The model is designed with the intention to be applicable to Chinese dialect’s citation form in general. By checking the distribution of these...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2009. — 168 p. This paper is a linguistic phonetic description of the syllabic constituents of Lengshuijiang dialect in middle Hunan Province. There are 24 initials, 35 finals, and 7 tones in Lengshuijiang phonology. Emphasis is placed on two issues - characteristics of the three types of plosive initial and the phenomenon of Ci...
Routledge, 2016. — 246 p. — (Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics). — ISBN: 113893481X . — English, Chinese This book centers on theoretical issues of phonology-syntax interface based on tone sandhi in Chinese dialects. It uses patterns in tone sandhi to study how speech should be divided into domains of various sizes or levels. Tone sandhi refers to tonal changes that...
Australian Catholic University, 1992. — 354 p. This thesis focuses on a neglected category of discourse units in Amoy Chinese: Discourse markers (DMs). The central aim of the thesis is to explore the nature of the DMs in Amoy discourse through a detailed analysis of the Amoy utterance final DM ho. A further objective is to provide a theoretical framework for DM study in other...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2019. — 276 p. This thesis provides a systematic acoustic study of citation tonal systems of Northern Gan by exploring key tonal dimensions of the register, pitch height, contour, and duration. The “multi-register and four-level” tonal model, which incorporates those dimensions, is employed to transcribe the tonal systems of seven...
Ответственный редактор С.Е. Яхонтов. — М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1985. — 366 с. В монографии рассматривается процесс формирования национального языка путунхуа в Китае, различные общественно-политические и лингвистические подходы к решению этой проблемы. Ареальное и функциональное развитие национального языка исследуется в связи с диалектами Северного...
М.: Научная книга, 1996. — 207 с. — ISBN: 5-7671-0020-9. Современные китайские диалекты по своим различиям и числу говорящих сопоставимы с крупными европейскими языками. Книга доктора филологических наук О.И.Завьяловой - первое в нашей стране обобщающее исследование по китайской диалектологии. Автором привлечены обширные данные, опубликованные на протяжении десятилетий в Китае,...
М.: Научная книга, 1996. — 207 с. — ISBN: 5-7671-0020-9. Современные китайские диалекты по своим различиям и числу говорящих сопоставимы с крупными европейскими языками. Книга доктора филологических наук О.И. Завьяловой — первое в нашей стране обобщающее исследование по китайской диалектологии. Автором привлечены обширные данные, опубликованные на протяжении десятилетий в...
Молодая наука – 2012. Региональная межвузовская научно-практическая конференция студентов, аспирантов и молодых ученых. - 6 стр В китайском языке представлены семь основных диалектных групп . между диалектами существуют значительные лексические и грамматические различия. Но наиболее существенные являются фонетические расхождения, касающиеся как звукового состава, так и системы...
М.: Наука, ГРВЛ, 1965. — 56 с. — (Языки народов Азии и Африки). От редакции. Исторический обзор. Фонетика. Лексика. Грамматика. Заключение. Приложение: основные источники.
М.: Наука, ГРВЛ, 1965. — 56 с. — (Языки народов Азии и Африки). От редакции. Исторический обзор. Фонетика. Лексика. Грамматика. Заключение. Приложение: основные источники.
北京：中国时代经济，2008. — 277 页。— ISBN: 9787802214934. В книге в научно-популярном стиле описаны восемь диалектных групп китайского языка и отдельные говоры или наречия, которые являются наиболее репрезентативными (а зачастую - наиболее изученными) в данных группах. Авторами используется классификация с восемью диалектными группами, однако Северный и Южный Минь рассматриваются...
北京： 高等教育出版社，2001. — 200页。 — ISBN 7040095637. 《汉语方言学》是教育部九五规划重点教材，全书分11章，论述了汉语方言的形成和发展、方言分区、语音系统和字音系统、词汇差异和词汇系统、语法差异，尤其注重了汉语方言的语音比较研究、词汇比较研究、语法的描写和比较研究、汉语方言与历史文化研究和汉语方言学的应用研究。《汉语方言学》立足于主要方言的比较，兼顾历时与共时、内部与外部，以理论总结为主，也注意了应用，反映了20世纪汉语方言学理论研究的前沿水平。《汉语方言学》适于高校汉语言专业本科生选修课和研究生专业课教学使用。 Учебник по диалектологии китайского языка (на китайском языке). В учебнике в общих чертах описана...
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