Author(s): Chenlei Zhou
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 Genetic affiliation
1.2 Typological profile
1.3 Sociolinguistic, sociohistorical and areal context
1.3.1 Sociolinguistic context
1.3.2 Sociohistorical context
1.3.3 Areal context
1.3.4 Theory and data
2 Phonology
2.1 Consonants
2.1.1 Stops
2.1.2 Fricatives
2.1.3 Affricates
2.1.4 Nasals
2.1.5 Lateral
2.1.6 Approximate
2.2 Vowels
2.2.1 Basic vowels
2.2.2 Nasal vowels
2.2.3 Vowel sequences
2.3 Word tones
2.4 Rization and reduplication
2.4.1 rization
2.4.2 Reduplication
2.5 Syllable structure
3 Nouns and noun phrases
3.1 Definition
3.2 Word formation
3.2.1 Affixation
3.2.2 Reduplication
3.2.3 Compounding
3.3 Number
3.3.1 =mɤ
3.3.2 =liɛ
3.4 Case relations
3.4.1 Dativeaccusative =xa/=a
3.4.2 Comitativeinstrumental =lã
3.4.3 Ablative =tha
3.4.4 Locative =li and =xɑ̃
3.4.5 Genitive =tɤ
3.4.6 Comparative khã
3.5 Referentiality
3.5.1 Generic
3.5.2 Individual
4 Verbs and verb phrases
4.1 Definition
4.2 Aspect
4.2.1 Perfective
4.2.2 Future
4.2.3 Ingressive
4.2.4 Progressive
4.2.5 Resultative
4.2.6 Experiential
4.2.7 The expression of tense
4.3 Modality
4.3.1 Dynamic modality
4.3.2 Epistemic modality
4.3.3 Deontic modality
4.3.4 Evidentiality
4.3.5 Negation
4.4 Serial verb constructions
4.5 Verbcomplement constructions
4.5.1 Verbdirection constructions
4.5.2 Verbresult constructions
4.5.3 Verbdegree constructions
4.6 Valence changing
4.7 Possession and existence
5 Adjectives and adverbs
5.1 Adjectives
5.1.1 Identify adjectives and verbs
5.1.2 Adjectives as modifiers
5.1.3 Adjectives as predicates
5.2 Adverbs
5.2.1 Position
5.2.2 Some common adverbs
5.2.3 Reduplication
6 Minor word classes
6.1 Pronoun
6.1.1 First person
6.1.2 Second person
6.1.3 Third person
6.1.4 Reflexive
6.1.5 Locutorreferential
6.2 Demonstratives
6.2.1 The system
6.2.2 Animate and inanimate referents
6.2.3 Location referents
6.2.4 Manner and degree
6.3 Interrogative words
6.3.1 tuɤ words
6.3.2 a words
6.3.3 mɤ words
6.3.4 Others
6.4 Numerals
6.4.1 Cardinal and ordinal numerals
6.4.2 Fractional numerals
6.5 Classifiers
6.5.1 Nominal classifiers
6.5.2 Verbal classifiers
6.5.3 The position of Num+CL and noun
6.6 Final particles
6.6.1 ti
6.6.2 pa
6.6.3 li
6.6.4 xuɑ̃
6.6.5 kɤ
6.6.6 ta
6.6.7 ia
6.6.8 mɤ
6.6.9 pɨ
6.6.10 sa
6.6.11 Summary
6.7 Adpositions
6.7.1 Prepositions
6.7.2 Postpositions
6.8 Coordinators
6.8.1 Conjunctive coordinator
6.8.2 Disjunctive coordinators
7 Clause structure
7.1 Word order
7.2 Ditransitive construction
7.3 Copula clause
7.4 Comparative clause
7.4.1 Comparative construction
7.4.2 Comparative construction of equality
7.4.3 Superlative construction
7.5 Imperative clause
7.5.1 The form of imperative clauses
7.5.2 The negation of imperative clauses
7.6 Interrogative clause
7.6.1 Yesno questions
7.6.2 Wh questions
7.6.3 Alternative question
7.6.4 Tag question
7.7 Subordinate clause
7.7.1 Relative clause
7.7.2 Complement clause
7.7.3 Adverbial clause
7.8 Topic structure
References
Appendices
I. Text “The past life in Zhoutun”
II. List of abbreviations
Index
