Highlights from three Language Families in Southwest China

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Gerner, Matthias

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Englisch

Forschungs-Stiftung Sprache und Religionerschienen am29.11.20191. Auflage

The Burmese-Lolo, Tai-Kadai, Miao-Yao and Chinese languages form a loose Sprachbund inSouthwest China with hundreds of languages coexisting and assimilating to each other.Shared language patterns include grammaticalized prepositions and aspect particles.Meanwhile individual languages showcase highly idiosyncratic properties not paralleledin any genetically or areally related language. In his fieldwork, the author encountered arange of rare sound phenomena: a bilabial trill in Nuosu, eleven retroflexive consonants inNeasu, five plain versus nasalized vowel pairs in Xong and nine contrastive tones in Kamtwo of which are undulated.mehr

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KlappentextThe Burmese-Lolo, Tai-Kadai, Miao-Yao and Chinese languages form a loose Sprachbund inSouthwest China with hundreds of languages coexisting and assimilating to each other.Shared language patterns include grammaticalized prepositions and aspect particles.Meanwhile individual languages showcase highly idiosyncratic properties not paralleledin any genetically or areally related language. In his fieldwork, the author encountered arange of rare sound phenomena: a bilabial trill in Nuosu, eleven retroflexive consonants inNeasu, five plain versus nasalized vowel pairs in Xong and nine contrastive tones in Kamtwo of which are undulated.

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-947306-90-9

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Forschungs-Stiftung Sprache und Religion

ErscheinungsortDuisburg

ErscheinungslandDeutschland

Erscheinungsjahr2019

Erscheinungsdatum29.11.2019

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