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De Gruyter eBook-Paket Sprachwissenschaft
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Online-Ausg.
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In English
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Biographical note: Carine Yuk-man Yiu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China.
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, M?n 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.