The Typology of Motion Events
An Empirical Study of Chinese Dialects| By: | Carine Yuk-man Yiu |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Print ISBN: | 9783110335774 |
| eText ISBN: | 9783110341768 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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, Wú, 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.