A Reference Grammar of Caijia : : An Unclassified Language of Guizhou / / Shanshan Lü.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Lü, Shanshan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Sinitic Languages of China [SLCH] : Typological Descriptions , 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXVIII, 600 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; The preface by the series editor --; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; Contents --; List of figures --; List of tables --; Abbreviations --; Chapter 1 Introduction --; Chapter 2 Sound system --; Chapter 3 Noun phrases --; Chapter 4 Verb phrases --; Chapter 5 Ditransitive constructions --; Chapter 6 Analytic causative constructions --; Chapter 7 Passive constructions --; Chapter 8 Differential object marking constructions --; Chapter 9 Constructions of comparison --; Chapter 10 Aspect system --; Chapter 11 Modal system --; Chapter 12 Negation --; Chapter 13 Interrogatives --; Chapter 14 Relative clauses --; Chapter 15 Clause linking: Complementation, coordination and adverbial subordination --; Chapter 16 Conclusion --; Text 1 The man and the tiger --; Text 2 The zombie wife --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110724806; 9783110766820; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993707; 9783110993684
• ISSN: 2365-8398
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110724806
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Shanshan Lü.

Caijia, [meŋ²¹ni³³ŋoŋ³³] ‘Caijia speech’, is an endangered language in the Sino-Tibetan family with less than 1000 speakers in Hezhang and Weining counties in northwest in Guizhou Province in Southwest China. Its sub-classification remains unclear. It was almost four decades ago when the Caijia language was officially reported for the first time in 1982 by the Language Team of Bureau of Ethnic Identification in Bijie, yet this language has nevertheless remained neither well-described nor studied. This book, a linguistic description of the Xingfa variety of Caijia based on the fieldwork data in Xingfa township of Hezhang county, is the first reference grammar of the Caijia language, covering its sound system, word formation, parts of speech and syntactic structures in fifteen chapters. Being analytic, Caijia presents many common grammatical features attested in East and Southeast Asian languages, for example, compounds, quadrisyllabic idiomatic expressions or elaborate expressions, lack of inflection, a classifier system, a strong relationship between nominalization and relativization, pro-drop and grammaticalization of verbs. Moreover, Caijia shares more similarities with Sinitic languages. Apart from these common areal features, this book will also reveal some special features of Caijia.