The description for this book, The Languages of China, will be forthcoming. The picture of China presented here is a study not just of one language but of many.
Author: S. Robert Ramsey
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069101468X
Category: History
Page: 366
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The description for this book, The Languages of China, will be forthcoming.
This paradox cannot be avoided if we are limited to the existing descriptions and approaches to Chinese. Personally, I think that the Chinese language should not be treated as homogeneous because of its long history and permanent ...
Author: Dan Xu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402083211
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 276
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Space has long been a popular topic in linguistic research. Numerous books on the subject have been published over the past decade. However, none of these books were based on linguistic data from Chinese and expressions of space in Chinese have been largely neglected in past research. In this volume, not only Mandarin Chinese (the standard language) is investigated; several other dialects, as well as a minority language of China and Chinese Sign Language are studied. Cross-linguistic, synchronic and diachronic approaches are used to investigate phenomena related to space. The authors of this book present different points of view on the expression of space in language and related theoretical issues. As the contributing scholars argue, Chinese shares many common features with other languages, but also presents some particular properties. Space is a topic that is both classical and modern, of enduring interest. These studies of space give insight into not only general linguistics but also other domains such as anthropology and psychology.
contributions focus on different aspects of space and quantification in the languages of China using different approaches. The aspects of language to be considered range from phonology and morphology to syntax and semantics, ...
Author: Dan Xu
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783319100401
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 251
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This volume provides general linguists with new data and analysis on languages spoken in China regarding various aspects of space and quantification, using different approaches. Contributions by researchers from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Europe, the United States and Australia offer insights on aspects of language ranging from phonology and morphology to syntax and semantics, while the approaches vary from formal, historical, areal, typological, and cognitive linguistics to second language acquisition. After separate volumes on space and quantification in languages of China, the studies in this volume combine space and quantification to allow readers a view of the intersection of the two topics. Each article contributes to general linguistic knowledge while discussing a particular aspect of space or quantification in a particular language/dialect, offering new data and analysis from languages that are spoken in the same geographical area, and that belong to various language families that exist and evolve in close contact with one another.
Broomhall, The Bible in China, 84–85; Zetzsche, The Bible in China, 170. “Correspondence,” Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal 21 (1890): 569. Foley regarded the language of Griffith John's Mandarin New Testament as 'Peking Mandarin ...
Author: George Kam Wah Mak
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004316300
Category: Religion
Page: 427
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Looking into the translation, publication, circulation and use of the Mandarin Bible, this book examines the relationship between Protestant Bible translation and the development of Mandarin into the national language of China during the late Qing and Republican era.
The linguistic situation in China is also more complex, since more languages from more families are involved. The languages of China consist of the Han languages (Mandarin and at least nine other Sinitic languages), and the Han are ...
Author: Dan Xu
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110293982
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 295
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Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar. The contributions in this book focus on the typological correlation between the three different strategies for quantification, as well as on some general issues. A better understanding of the quantification strategies in the languages of China will enrich our comprehension of human language and thought. The book is expected to have an impact on the study of linguistic typology, language contact, and patterns of the evolution.
With the further expansion of economic and trade activities,and the establishment of the China–ASEAN Free Trade Area, it can be expected that the Gin language, vernacular Chinese, Cantonese, and Putonghua will all be grasped well by Gin ...
Author: Qingsheng Zhou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 9781501511516
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 468
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This book describes and analyzes the situation of minority languages in China.
The writting system evolved from both semantically and phonetically based uses of Chinese characters . The present - day writing system is the result of simplification of the original Chinese characters in two ways .
Author: Masayoshi Shibatani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521369185
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 432
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A survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan includes the most comprehensive study of the polysynthetic Ainu language yet to appear in English as well as a comprehensive analysis of Japanese linguistics.
The so - called " written language " of China is indeed uniform throughout the whole country ; but it is rather a notation than a language ; for this universal written language is pronounced differently when read aloud in the different ...
The so - called " written language " of China is indeed uniform throughout the whole country ; but it is rather a notation than a language ; for this universal written language is pronounced differently when read aloud in the different ...
The standard official language is Pǔtōnghuà, the Mandarin of Běijīng shorn of its purely local Běijīng characteristics. It is the medium of instruction in both the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China on Táiwān, ...
Author: Anatole Lyovin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195149883
Category: Education
Page: 545
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Unique in scope, An Introduction to the Languages of the World introduces linguistics students to the variety of world's languages. Students will gain familiarity with concepts such as sound change, lexical borrowing, diglossia, and language diffusion, and the rich variety of linguistic structure in word order, morphological types, grammatical relations, gender, inflection, and derivation. It offers the opportunity to explore structures of varying and fascinating languages even with no prior acquaintance. A chapter is devoted to each of the world's continents, with in-depth analyses of representative languages of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America, and separate chapters cover writing systems and pidgins and creoles. Each chapter contains exercises and recommendations for further reading. New to this edition are eleven original maps as well as sections on sign languages and language death and revitalization. For greater readability, basic language facts are now organized in tables, and language samples follow international standards for phonetic transcription and word-by-word glossing. There is an instructor's manual available for registered instructors on the book's companion website.