Space in Languages of China: Cross-Linguistic, Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives

Book Overview

Preface.- Introduction: How Chinese structures space by Dan Xu.- Section A. Space: a Cross-linguistic Perspective - Chinese Localizers: Diachrony and some Typological Considerations by Hilary Chappell and Alain Peyraube.- Syntax of Space across Chinese Dialects: Conspiring and Competing Principles and Factors by Danqing Liu.- The Linguistic Catergorization of Deictic Direction in Chinese - with Reference to Japanese by Christine Lamarre.- The Locative Words in the Waxiang Dialect Spoken in Guzhang, Hunan by Yunji Wu.- From Locative to Object Markers: the Parallel Development of two Postpositions in Bai by Jingqi Fu and Lin Xu.- The Role of Visual Space in Sign Language Development by Shun-chiu Yau.- Section B. Space in Synchronic and Diachronic Chinese - Asymmetry in the Expression of Space in Chinese - the Chinese Language meets Typology by Dan Xu.- Two Conditions and Grammaticalization of the Chinese Locative by Chaofen Sun.- Origin and Evolution of the Locative term h u 'back'in Chinese by Fuxiang Wu.- The Inessive Structure in Archaic and Medieval Chinese: an Evolutionary Study of Inessive Demonstrative uses from Archaic to Early Modern Chinese by Qingzhi Zhu and Wenjie Chen.- Index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 904817841X
• ISBN13: 9789048178414
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"