By Hilary M. Chappell
ISBN-10: 0191035734
ISBN-13: 9780191035739
ISBN-10: 019179113X
ISBN-13: 9780191791130
ISBN-10: 0198723792
ISBN-13: 9780198723790
Providing new learn into the nice structural variety present in sinitic languages, this paintings attracts on broad empirical info from lesser-known languages and seeks to dispel many recurrent linguistic myths concerning the Sinitic language family.
summary: proposing new examine into the good structural range present in sinitic languages, this paintings attracts on wide empirical info from lesser-known languages and seeks to dispel many recurrent linguistic myths concerning the Sinitic language relatives
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Chappell () DIFFERENTIAL OBJECT MARKER < VERB OF GIVING Qimen 祁门 (Hui 徽语): DOM fã11 < ‘give’ 尔分钱摆好,不要跌失。 n11 fã11 tshĩ:ə55 pA42-xɛ42, pA5iɯ:ə22 ti:ə35-ɕi0. ’ (Hirata : ) () DIFFERENTIAL OBJECT MARKER < COMITATIVE PREPOSITION Xianghua乡话, Hunan (unaffiliated Sinitic): DOM kai55 < COMITATIVE 我跟橘子剥下皮。 u25 kai55 koŋ55tsa pau41 kA33 fa25. ’ (Chappell et al. ) There is one main exception to the use of object-marking constructions: in what we will identify below as the Far Southern area,7 serial verb constructions (SVC) are employed with a TAKE verb as V that has not yet fully grammaticalized into an object marker.
Sinitic passives Passives in many Southeast and East Asian languages have been described as ‘noncanonical’ in the work of Siewierska and Bakker (), not to mention in earlier work by Siewierska (). Taking Sinitic languages as an example, this is due to the fact that, two typical constructional features which go against the ‘canon’ are the following: (i) Agentiveness—the presence of an obligatory agent noun phrase (ii) Adversity—a semantic feature coded as part of the overall constructional meaning, to the effect that the event is detrimental in some way for the patient NP.
From original lexical meanings of ‘tell’ (jiào 叫), ‘request’, or ‘allow’ (ràng 让), these lexical verbs evolve from their use in pivot constructions of the form ‘tell/allow someone to do something’ to the constructional meaning of a causative: ‘make/have or let someone do something’. () is an example from a Jin dialect for the use of jiào 叫 as an agent marker. NPSubject/Patient – Passive MarkerDiversity in Sinitic Languages by Hilary M. Chappell
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