Space and Quantification in Languages of China

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

3. Geographical Space

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. The Role of Geography in the Northwest China Linguistic Area

      • Dan Xu

      Pages 57-73

   3. A Gradual Path to the Loss of Entering Tone: Case Studies of Jin Dialects in the Lingshi Highlands Shanxi

      • Li Shen, Naomi Nakano

      Pages 75-92

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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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.

• 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

• INALCO, Paris, France

  Dan Xu

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

  Jingqi Fu

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