Index
A
- Acceptability
133–134, 146, 160–167, 169–171
- Agent
44–47, 50–52, 92–94, 99–100
- Altaic languages
18, 33, 37
- Ambiguity
98–100, 158, 167, 171
- Apparent time approach
55–56
- Areal feature
17, 37, 81, 122, 174
- Areal-typological perspective
17
- Austronesian
17, 20, 37, 233
- Beijing Mandarin
18, 107, 110, 112, 114
- Beneficiary
8, 34–36, 41–43, 51, 84–86, 114–118, 157, 174
- Beneficiary construction
12, 41–43, 82, 86, 112
- Beneficiary constructions
42
- Beneficiary marker
34–36, 41–43, 51, 82, 84–85, 174
- Biliteracy and Trilingualism
140
- Borrowing
18, 38, 133, 173
- Cantonese
ix, 10, 14–17, 39–49, 55–60, 62, 73–77, 81–82, 85–86, 89–94, 96, 99–101, 119–121, 123, 125–128, 131–147, 150, 154, 158–160, 162, 165, 167, 171–175, 235–236, 239
- Causative
ix, 5, 33–38, 43–49, 51, 73, 97–101, 158, 169–171, 173, 205
- Causative construction
ix, 5, 44, 46–48, 98–99, 101, 158, 169, 171
- Causative verb
33–37, 43–44, 46, 48, 51, 73, 99–100, 173, 205
- Chinese dialects
10, 14–17, 19–21, 28–30, 32–33, 37, 86, 88–89, 105, 107, 109, 118–119, 122–123, 173, 205
- Chronological development
ix, 40, 99–101
- Cognitive linguistics approach
134
- Comparative construction
106–107
- Contact-induced grammaticalization
38, 173
- Corpus
ix, 4, 58, 76, 96, 112–115, 118, 122, 131, 175, 237
- Corpus data
ix, 112, 115, 118, 122, 175
- Dative 7–9, 51, 88–89, 99, 101
- Dative construction
8, 89
- Dative shift
126–127, 129–130
- Degree of acceptability
146, 160, 163, 166, 170
- Degrees of acceptability
163
- Degree of unacceptability
165
- Diachronic
ix, 39–41, 55–56, 99–100, 173–174
- Directional verbs
82, 85, 173
- Discourse approach
129–131, 133
- Ditransitive construction
7–8
- Ditransitive sentence
8, 10
- Ditransitive verb
7–8, 10
- DO IO pattern
10, 14, 108, 110, 112–114, 120–122, 125–127, 129–131, 133, 135, 144
- DO IO word order
107, 119, 127
- Double-object construction
ix, 5–14, 41–44, 50, 52–53, 77, 79, 82, 85, 89, 105, 107–110, 112–114, 118–120, 122–123, 125–128, 130–131, 133, 136–137, 144, 147, 150, 171, 173–174, 257
- Double-object sentence pattern
164, 170, 261
- Double-object sentences
58, 77–80, 85, 90, 110, 113–114, 129, 133, 150, 158–159, 171, 239
- Double-object verb
3–4, 6–7, 14–17, 21, 23, 25, 27–30, 32–33, 35–37, 40, 42–45, 50–51, 61, 82, 86–90, 99, 111, 158, 169, 172–174, 205, 207–209, 212–214, 216–221, 223, 225
- Double-object verbs
5–6, 12, 22–23, 25, 28–30, 32, 34, 37, 40, 61–62, 77, 79, 86, 110–111, 128–129, 133, 144–145, 147, 150, 157–158, 160, 163–164, 166, 173
- Early dialectal materials
56, 58, 61
- Ethnolinguistic vitality index
138
- Extra-linguistic factors
125, 144
- Fieldwork
ix, 3, 88, 115, 117–118, 122, 135–137, 143–147, 149–150, 171, 173–174, 257
- Gan dialects
25, 109, 218
- GIVE
ix, 3–12, 14–17, 20–21, 28–53, 55, 60–74, 76–77, 80–82, 158, 163, 173–175, 205
- Giver
5, 44, 52, 85–86, 89
- Give-type double-object construction
8, 10, 107, 112, 119, 122, 150
- Give-type double-object verbs
5–6, 14
- Give-type IO marker
86, 89
- Giving 3–5, 7, 12, 43–44, 49, 51–52, 85, 167–168
- Go-type IO marker
86–89, 174
- Grammatical functions
14–15, 39, 51, 53, 99–100
- Grammaticalization
ix, 11, 15–16, 19, 34, 38–41, 51, 55, 88, 99–101, 173, 175
- Hakka dialects
22–23, 28–30, 109, 209
- Heavy Noun Phrase Shift
163
- Hong Kong Cantonese
10, 14–17, 42–49, 52, 76–77, 101, 105–106, 123, 126, 133, 135, 137, 139, 143–147, 158–159, 171–173, 257
- Indirect object
ix, 5–6, 8
- Indirect object marker
ix, 12, 41
- Instrument
ix, 15, 49–52, 96–99, 174
- Instrument marker
ix, 96–97
- Instruments
15, 49, 95–100, 174
- Involuntary permission
48
- IO DO pattern
10, 11, 77, 107–112, 114, 120–122, 125–128, 130–135, 137, 146, 174, 239
- IO DO word order
10, 107, 120, 127, 154, 173
- IO marker
12, 14–15, 33–36, 41, 43, 51–52, 74–79, 81–82, 84–90, 99, 101, 160–163, 173–174, 205
- Jianghuai Mandarin dialects
108
- Kam-Tai
18–20, 29–30, 229
- Language contact 10, 28, 32, 37–38, 107, 125, 133, 135–136, 171, 174
- Lingua franca
10, 137, 140
- Linguistic area
20, 34, 37, 88, 173–174
- Linguistic change
11, 55–56, 77, 136, 145, 173
- Linguistic contact
33–34, 143
- Mandarin dialects
27–29, 33, 105, 107–108, 110, 114–115, 117, 223
- Marked double-object construction
11
- Min dialects
23, 29, 88, 99, 108, 214
- Modern Standard Chinese
ix, 136–137, 140–141, 143–147, 149, 154–155, 157, 159, 167–168, 171–174
- Monotransitive construction
13
- Mother tongue
136, 138, 141, 143
- Mother tongue education
141
- Native pattern
10, 112, 119, 125–126, 134–135, 144, 147, 150, 153, 155, 158, 160–161, 163, 173
- Native patterns
106, 122, 125, 128, 135, 147, 150, 157–159, 163, 170–172
- Non-native double-object patterns
158–159, 171–172
- Non-native patterns
135, 147, 157–159, 163, 170–172
- Non-native structures
136
- Non-Sinitic languages
15–18, 20, 28–29, 33, 35, 37–38, 122, 173, 205, 228
- Northern dialects
10, 18, 29, 33, 37, 106–107, 110, 114, 118–119, 128, 144, 173
- Official language
10, 128, 139–140
- On-going linguistic changes
129
- On-going syntactic change
11, 159
- Oracle-bone inscriptions
87, 89, 173
- Overt IO marker
81, 160–161
- Passive construction
ix, 35, 46–48, 52, 92, 99, 101
- Passive marker
ix, 14–15, 33–38, 45, 48, 51, 90–95, 97–101, 174, 205
- Perception task
146, 160, 168–172, 255
- Permission
44, 47–48, 52, 100, 170
- Permissive
15, 34–35, 44, 47–48, 51–52, 73, 97, 101, 158
- Possession
5, 44, 52, 86, 88–89, 126
- Possessive construction
166
- Possessive noun phrase
165–166, 171
- Possessive noun phrases
165–166
- Post-verbal gei-phrase
123
- Pre-modern Cantonese dialect materials
58–59, 92, 235, 239
- Pre-modern dialect materials
58, 60, 78, 92, 135
- Pre-verbal gei-phrase
123
- Production task
145–146, 149, 158, 160, 164, 168–169, 171–172, 247, 261
- Putonghua
ix, 10, 110, 122, 125, 128, 135–147, 149, 154–155, 157–159, 167–168, 171–174
- Recipient
5–10, 12–14, 41–44, 52, 85–87, 89–90, 100, 115–119, 157, 174
- Semantic attributes
51, 89
- Semantic extension
ix, 86–87, 89
- Semantic feature
6, 12, 42, 44, 82, 118, 126–127, 144
- Semantic role
9, 41–42, 46, 49, 114–118, 174
- Semantic-pragmatic tendencies
100
- Sentence processing
100, 131
- Serial verb construction
11–13, 43
- Sino-Tibetan language family
18, 20
- Sociolinguistic alignment
138, 141
- Southeast Asian languages
17, 19–20, 34, 36, 38
- Southeast Asian linguistic area
20, 34, 37, 88, 173–174
- Southern Chinese dialects
19, 37
- Southern dialects
ix, 10, 18, 34–35, 105–110, 112, 114, 119, 122, 135
- Southwestern Mandarin dialects
108
- Standard Mandarin
11–12, 14, 33, 41–42, 45, 48–49, 110, 119, 122, 125–126, 128, 130, 135–136, 144, 165
- Stratification
105–107, 109–110
- Surface structure
14, 42, 46, 51, 82, 97–98, 101, 158, 169
- Syntactic change
82, 98, 100, 133, 144, 159, 171
- Syntactic stratification
105, 109–110
- Thing
5–8, 10, 13–14, 41, 44, 52, 85, 134–135
- Three-argument structure
ix, 3
- Three-participant clauses
44
- Three-participant event
50
- Three-place predicate
7–8, 47
- Tibeto-Burman
17–20, 29, 34–35, 228
- Transfer of possession
86, 88–89
- Transformational approach
126
- Typological contrast
ix, 122
- Typological differences
18, 107, 119, 144, 174
- Typological patterns
109, 118, 173
- Typological significance
86, 112
- Typologically distinct patterns
106, 125
- Typology
10, 48, 105–107, 119
- Underlying structure
82, 126
- Unmarked double-object construction
11
- V DO IO pattern
77, 78, 81, 127, 131, 133, 162, 167
- V DO 畀 IO pattern
77, 78, 81, 146, 154, 160, 161, 165, 167
- V IO DO pattern
77, 111, 114, 131, 133–135, 146, 150–158, 163–168, 171, 172
- V 畀 IO DO pattern
133–135, 156–159, 163, 164, 167, 171
- Wang Shuo
112–115, 131, 237
- Word order
10–11, 14, 105, 107, 110, 112–113, 115, 118–122, 125, 127, 129, 131–133, 144, 154, 157, 166–167, 173
- Word order change
105, 137
- Word order typology
10, 105
- Xiang dialects
25, 28, 109–110, 219
- Yue dialects
19, 21, 28–30, 32, 42, 50, 56–58, 119–120, 135, 144, 205
- Zhongyuan Mandarin dialects
107
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畀 IO V DO pattern
127, 128, 133, 157, 158, 169–171