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International Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Vol. 10:1 (2023) ► pp.167–180
Book review

Guangshun Cao & Hsiao-Jung Yu (eds.). Language Contact and Change in Chinese
Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter Mouton, 2019. 264 pp. ISBN 9783110610062 (hardcover) / 9783110612981 (ebook)

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Article outline
  • Theory and fact – A study of the translated Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period from the perspective of language contact
  • On the origin of the Chinese reflexive ziji from the perspective of the medieval Chinese Buddhist scriptures
  • The origin and development of exclusive negative particles in the Chinese language
  • The postpositions suo 所 and bian 边 in translated Chinese Buddhist scriptures of the medieval period
  • Variant reduplication and four-character state adjectives in Yuan Zaju
  • The correlation between the Chinese purpose construction “VP + Qu (去, ‘Go’)” And SOV languages
  • On the Han’er yanyu of the Yuan Dynasty
  • A study of the special syntactic features in Yuan baihua
  • On the special syntactic features in the vernacular imperial edicts of the early Ming Dynasty (1368–1424)
  • The influence of language contact on the word order of some minority languages in Southern China
  • Second language acquisition and contact-induced language change in the history of the Chinese language
  • References
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