A Grammar of Gan Chinese : : The Yichun Language /

A Grammar of Gan Chinese : : The Yichun Language / / Xuping Li.

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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 gi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Li, Xuping,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Sinitic Languages of China [SLCH] : Typological Descriptions , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVIII, 313 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • List of abbreviations
  • Contents
  • 1. Gan and the Gan People
  • 2. The Yichun sound system
  • 3. Morphology
  • 4. Personal pronouns
  • 5. Possessives
  • 6. Demonstratives
  • 7. Numerals and classifiers
  • 8. Adjectives and adjective phrases
  • 9. Prepositions
  • 10. Postpositions
  • 11. Aspectuality
  • 12. Modality
  • 13. Negation
  • 14. Resultative constructions
  • 15. Ditransitives
  • 16. BA constructions
  • 17. Passives and causatives
  • 18. Topic and focus related constructions
  • 19. Relative clauses
  • 20. Interrogatives
  • 21. Clause linking: coordination and subordination
  • References
  • Index
  • Appendix

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