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