The typology of motion events : an empirical study of Chinese dialects
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The typology of motion events : an empirical study of Chinese dialects
（Empirical approaches to language typology / editors, Georg Bossong, Bernard Comrie, v. 53）
De Gruyter Mouton, c2014
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National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
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This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wu, Hakka, Min and Cantonese. The author shows that these dialects form a continuum with some exhibiting more characteristics of a verb-framed language than the others. The phenomenon reflects the various stages of typological transformation and grammaticalization that the dialects have undergone.
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