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Space and Quantification in Languages of China

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Editors:
  1. Dan Xu

    1. INALCO, Paris, France

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  2. Jingqi Fu

    1. Dept. of Int'l Languages & Cultures, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, USA

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Impact of Space and Quantification on Language Universals and Typology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Space, Time and Asymmetry in Chinese

      • Jerome L. Packard
      Pages 3-16

    3. Prosodically Constrained Localizers in Classical and Modern Chinese

      • Shengli Feng
      Pages 17-35

    4. The Status of Classifiers in Tibeto-Burman Languages

      • Jingqi Fu
      Pages 37-54

  4. Evolution of Quantificational Expressions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Semantic Change and Grammaticalization of the Universal Quantifier mĕi 每 in Chinese

      • Janet Zhiqun Xing
      Pages 95-115

    3. Chinese Names for Integers

      • Rémi Anicotte
      Pages 117-138

  5. Perception and Expressions of Space

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Quantification and Modality: Intransitive ba Sentences

      • Robert Iljic
      Pages 141-163

    3. How French Learners of Chinese L2 Express Motion Events in Narratives

      • Arnaud Arslangul
      Pages 165-187

    4. Expression of the Inclusion Relationship in Contemporary Chinese

      • Ruoyu Yao
      Pages 189-204

  6. Verbal Quantification

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. On the Semantic Functions of Three Different Types of Classifier Reduplication in Mandarin Chinese

      • Kairong Yang
      Pages 207-231

    3. Chinese Semelfactives and Body Movements

      • Christine Lamarre
      Pages 233-247

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 249-251
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • INALCO, Paris, France

    Dan Xu

  • Dept. of Int'l Languages & Cultures, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, USA

    Jingqi Fu

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

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