Overview
Includes the newest studies of Space and quantification, the two most important aspects of human cognition, of languages in China
New data are presented and analyzed in different theoretical models
The contributors to this volume represent different countries and research traditions?
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Impact of Space and Quantification on Language Universals and Typology
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Evolution of Quantificational Expressions
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Perception and Expressions of Space
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Verbal Quantification
Keywords
- Altaic languages, Mongolian
- French learners of Chinese L2
- Hmong-Mjen (Miao-Yao) language in contact
- Jin dialects in the Lingshi Highlands, Shanxi
- Sino-Tibetan
- Tai languages and Chinese
- Tibeto-Burman
- classical and modern Chinese
- classifiers in Tibeto-Burman languages
- diachronic studies of Chinese dialects
- language contact in China
- languages in China
- locative expressions in Chinese
- phonology of Chinese
- quantification in languages
- quantifier mĕi and universal quantifiers
- space perception asymmetry in Chinese
- space, quantification, language universals
- types of classifier reduplication in Mandarin Chinese
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Space and Quantification in Languages of China
Editors: Dan Xu, Jingqi Fu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10040-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10039-5Published: 04 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36272-4Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10040-1Published: 24 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 251
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Languages, Chinese, Syntax