Dan Xu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dan Xu is involved.
Article
2020 From topic marker to case marker: A case of case formation in Gansu-Qinghai linguistic area Asian Languages and Linguistics 1:2, pp. 278–308 | Article
The case model of the syncretic case [xa] in the Gansu-Qinghai area came from non-Sinitic languages, while the phonetic form came from Sinitic languages (“Sinitic languages” are usually called “Chinese dialects” in the Chinese linguistic community). The paper shows that this marker [xa] may come… read more
