Jin Chinese Grammar I: Referent and Tense of Northern Shaanxi Dialects Xiangdong Xing
Jin Chinese Grammar I: Referent and Tense of Northern Shaanxi Dialects Xiangdong Xing This book is the first volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect…
Specifikacia Jin Chinese Grammar I: Referent and Tense of Northern Shaanxi Dialects Xiangdong Xing
Jin Chinese Grammar I: Referent and Tense of Northern Shaanxi Dialects Xiangdong Xing
This book is the first volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect of Northern Shaanxi Province in China, with a focus on the grammatical features of pronouns, aspect and appearance, and the system of tenses.The Jin dialect of Northern Shaanxi is one of the most ancient, complicated, and representative dialects of the Yellow River and figures prominently in our understanding of the Jin dialect and northern Chinese dialects as a whole. The following chapter elaborates the different devices to express the status of realizing, accomplishing, lasting, and momentum-reducing as well as differences among similar aspectual markers and dialects. This volume first elucidates the semantic and dialectal differences in personal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, and interrogative pronouns, as well as the special linguistic origins of the pronouns.