Review published In: International Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Vol. 10:1 (2023) ► pp.167–180
Book review
. Language Contact and Change in Chinese. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter Mouton, 2019. 264 pp. ISBN 9783110610062 (hardcover) / 9783110612981 (ebook)
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Published online: 30 June 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.22016.luo
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.22016.luo
Article outline
- Theory and fact – A study of the translated Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period from the perspective of language contact
- On the origin of the Chinese reflexive ziji from the perspective of the medieval Chinese Buddhist scriptures
- The origin and development of exclusive negative particles in the Chinese language
- The postpositions suo 所 and bian 边 in translated Chinese Buddhist scriptures of the medieval period
- Variant reduplication and four-character state adjectives in Yuan Zaju
- The correlation between the Chinese purpose construction “VP + Qu (去, ‘Go’)” And SOV languages
- On the Han’er yanyu of the Yuan Dynasty
- A study of the special syntactic features in Yuan baihua
- On the special syntactic features in the vernacular imperial edicts of the early Ming Dynasty (1368–1424)
- The influence of language contact on the word order of some minority languages in Southern China
- Second language acquisition and contact-induced language change in the history of the Chinese language
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