"Through describing the grammar of dialect of seven counties along the Yellow River, this two-volume set synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialects in Northern Shaanxi Province in China. The Jin dialects in Northern Shaanxi is one of the most ancient, complicated, and representative dialects along the Yellow River, which figures prominently in the understanding of the Jin dialect and northern Chinese dialects as a whole. The first volume focuses on the pronouns, aspect and appearance, andtense system, while the second volume focuses on aspects including the subjunctive mood, expressions of complex sentence relationship, embedded sentence patterns, complex interrogative sentences, the formation of imperative modal particle "zhe", and the phonetic variation of grammatical constituents. With the substantial size of the corpus and the in-depth investigation, the book gives insight into the peculiarity of the Jin dialect in terms of grammar, the significant role of diachronic comparative studies on dialectal grammar, and the grammaticalization of Chinese. The book will be a useful reference for scholars and students interested in the Jin dialect, Chinese dialects and Chinese linguistics"--
This book is the second volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect in Northern Shaanxi Province in China, with a focus on six grammatical features of the dialect.
This book is the second volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect in Northern Shaanxi Province in China, with a focus on six grammatical features of the dialect.
The Jin dialect of Northern Shaanxi is one of the most ancient, complicated, and representative dialects of the Yellow River region and figures prominently in our understanding of the Jin dialect and northern Chinese dialects as a whole. The book looks into the following six aspects of the dialect: subjunctive mood, expressions of complex sentence relationships, embedded sentence patterns, complex interrogative sentences, the formation of imperative modal particle “zhe” and the phonetic variation of grammatical constituents. In the final chapter, the author discusses the significance of diachronic comparison as the research method for studying Chinese dialectal grammar.
The book will be a useful reference for scholars and students interested in the Jin dialect, Chinese dialects and Chinese linguistics.
