A Reference Grammar of Caijia

Shanshan Lü

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2022

A Reference Grammar of Caijia

An Unclassified Language of Guizhou

Shanshan Lü

Volume 8 in the series Sinitic Languages of China [SLCH]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110724806

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About this book

Caijia, [meŋ²¹ni³³ŋoŋ³³] ‘Caijia speech’, is an endangered language in the Sino-Tibetan family with less than 1000 speakers in Hezhang and Weining counties in northwest in Guizhou Province in Southwest China. Its sub-classification remains unclear. It was almost four decades ago when the Caijia language was officially reported for the first time in 1982 by the Language Team of Bureau of Ethnic Identification in Bijie, yet this language has nevertheless remained neither well-described nor studied. This book, a linguistic description of the Xingfa variety of Caijia based on the fieldwork data in Xingfa township of Hezhang county, is the first reference grammar of the Caijia language, covering its sound system, word formation, parts of speech and syntactic structures in fifteen chapters.

Being analytic, Caijia presents many common grammatical features attested in East and Southeast Asian languages, for example, compounds, quadrisyllabic idiomatic expressions or elaborate expressions, lack of inflection, a classifier system, a strong relationship between nominalization and relativization, pro-drop and grammaticalization of verbs. Moreover, Caijia shares more similarities with Sinitic languages. Apart from these common areal features, this book will also reveal some special features of Caijia.

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Shanshan Lü, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
The preface by the series editor Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XXIII
List of tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XXV
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XXVII
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Chapter 2 Sound system Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
Chapter 3 Noun phrases Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter 4 Verb phrases Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Chapter 5 Ditransitive constructions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Chapter 6 Analytic causative constructions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Chapter 7 Passive constructions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Chapter 8 Differential object marking constructions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
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Chapter 10 Aspect system Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
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Chapter 15 Clause linking: Complementation, coordination and adverbial subordination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Specialists in Sino-Tibetan Languages, Typologists, Language documentation
Pages
- Front matter: 28
- Main content: 600
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 13
- Tables: 61
Keywords: Grammar; Sinitic Languages; Typology; Caijia

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Published: October 24, 2022
ISBN: 9783110724806

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Published: October 24, 2022
ISBN: 9783110724653