Typological shift in lexicalizing motion events: The case of Wenzhou
@article{Lin2020TypologicalSI, title={Typological shift in lexicalizing motion events: The case of Wenzhou}, author={Jingxia Lin}, journal={Linguistic Typology}, year={2020}, volume={25}, pages={1 - 38} }
Abstract Typological shift in lexicalizing motion events has hitherto been observed cross-linguistically. While over time, Chinese has shown a shift from a dominantly verb-framed language in Old Chinese to a strongly satellite-framed language in Modern Standard Mandarin, this study presents the Chinese dialect Wenzhou, which has taken a step further than Standard Mandarin and other Chinese dialects in becoming a thoroughly satellite-framed language. On the one hand, Wenzhou strongly disfavors…
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