| Автор | Dede, Keith |
| Дата выпуска | 1999 |
| dc.description | This article describes a morphosyntactic feature of the Xining dialect that is unique among all Chinese dialects: that is, the use of a postposition to express ablative nominal relationships. The postposition [t[curly-tail lowercase c]ia] is invariably pronounced in the neutral tone and has no cognates in either earlier varieties of Chinese or among present Chinese dialects. The morphemeʼs origin is shown to have come from a neighboring non-Sinitic language. Moreover, the variations within the syntactic expression of the ablative are correlated with various sociolinguistic groups. These correlations suggest an ongoing change in the dialectʼs morphosyntactic system of a kind rarely observed among Chinese dialects. Finally, the process of linguistic change is correlated with demographic changes within the Xining region that show Xining is a place where language contact and rapid linguistic change are likely to be found. |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | An ablative postposition in the Xining dialect |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-8021 |
| Print ISSN | 0954-3945 |
| Журнал | Language Variation and Change |
| Том | 11 |
| Первая страница | 1 |
| Последняя страница | 17 |
| Аффилиация | Dede Keith; University of Washington |
| Выпуск | 1 |
