Chenlei Zhou | John Benjamins

Zhou, Chenlei 2022 From ‘two’ to a comitative-instrumental case marker: A regional innovation in the Gansu-Qinghai linguistic area Language and Linguistics 23:2, pp. 349–369 | Article

This paper examines the comitative and instrumental case markers in the Chinese dialects and Altaic languages spoken in the Gansu-Qinghai Linguistic Area (GQLA) and finds a noteworthy phenomenon: one of the frequently used comitative-instrumental markers originated from the numeral ‘two’, a rare… read more

Zhou, Chenlei 2020 The structure of Num+CL in the Zhōutún dialect: Issues induced by language contact Language and Linguistics 21:1, pp. 145–173 | Article

The structure of Num+CL in the Zhōutún dialect can be divided into two kinds: VCP and NCP. The VCP in VCP+V is the adverbial, while the NCP can either precede or follow the N it modifies. In NCP+N, the NCP is the attribute; however, in N+NCP, the NCP can be the post-attribute and the… read more

Zhou, Chenlei 2020 Case markers and language contact in the Gansu-Qinghai linguistic area Asian Languages and Linguistics 1:1, pp. 168–203 | Article

This paper examines the forms and usage of case markers in the Gan-Qing dialects, the Amdo Tibetan and Altaic languages in the Gansu-Qinghai linguistic area (GQLA), including datives, accusatives, absolutives, comitatives, instrumentals, ablatives, locatives, genitives, comparatives and reflexive… read more

Zhou, Chenlei 2019 甘青方言格標記「哈」的來源 [The origin of the dative-accusative marker xa in Gan-Qing dialects] Language and Linguistics 20:3, pp. 493–513 | Article

本文探討甘青方言格標記「哈」的來源。首先梳理學界的兩種主要觀點，即頓詞說和方位詞說，進而提出本文的假設：「哈」本字是漢語的「下」，在和藏語的接觸中，首先用如與格標記並標記部分「賓語」，進而擴展到整個賓語，成為賓格標記，從而形成共時層面不見於藏語和阿爾泰語的與格-賓格同形的狀態。在共時的甘青方言的格系統中，「哈」是早期和藏語接觸的產物，離格標記、部分方言的工具格標記和反身領屬標記等是後期和阿爾泰語接觸的產物。