In Search of Time in Peking Mandarin The Postclassic and Early Colonial Periods (1000-1600 A. D.) |
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| Author:
| Chirkova, Ekaterina Yurievna |
| Series title: | CNWS Publications |
| ISBN: | 978-90-5789-089-5 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2014 |
| Publisher: | Amsterdam University Press
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| Imprint: | Leiden University Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $37.50 |
Book Description:
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This book is about Peking Mandarin, the dialect of Peking, which despite its official status as the spoken foundation of the national language of China, remains largely unexplored to date. Based on a large collection of spoken data from native speakers of Peking Mandarin, it comments on the ways Peking natives use to refer to time, focusing mainly on phenomena which are underrepresented in the linguistic literature. The description concentrates on aspectual particles. Usages that are...
More DescriptionThis book is about Peking Mandarin, the dialect of Peking, which despite its official status as the spoken foundation of the national language of China, remains largely unexplored to date. Based on a large collection of spoken data from native speakers of Peking Mandarin, it comments on the ways Peking natives use to refer to time, focusing mainly on phenomena which are underrepresented in the linguistic literature. The description concentrates on aspectual particles. Usages that are newly attested in the data are compared to existing accounts of Mandarin, raising issues of polysemy and homonymy for each of these particles. Both synchronic and diachronic aspects are examined. It is demonstrated that some forms that have been considered extinct in Mandarin are alive and kicking in the language of Peking.