A Reference Grammar of Caijia
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A Reference Grammar of Caijia

An Unclassified Language of Guizhou

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

A Reference Grammar of Caijia

An Unclassified Language of Guizhou

About this book

Caijia, [me?²¹ni³³?o?³³] 'Caijia speech', is an endangered language in the Sino-Tibetan family with less than 1000 speakers in Hezhang and Weining counties in northwest in Guizhou Province in Southwest China. Its sub-classification remains unclear. It was almost four decades ago when the Caijia language was officially reported for the first time in 1982 by the Language Team of Bureau of Ethnic Identification in Bijie, yet this language has nevertheless remained neither well-described nor studied. This book, a linguistic description of the Xingfa variety of Caijia based on the fieldwork data in Xingfa township of Hezhang county, is the first reference grammar of the Caijia language, covering its sound system, word formation, parts of speech and syntactic structures in fifteen chapters.

Being analytic, Caijia presents many common grammatical features attested in East and Southeast Asian languages, for example, compounds, quadrisyllabic idiomatic expressions or elaborate expressions, lack of inflection, a classifier system, a strong relationship between nominalization and relativization, pro-drop and grammaticalization of verbs. Moreover, Caijia shares more similarities with Sinitic languages. Apart from these common areal features, this book will also reveal some special features of Caijia.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Chapter 1 Introduction
  6. Chapter 2 Sound system
  7. Chapter 3 Noun phrases
  8. Chapter 4 Verb phrases
  9. Chapter 5 Ditransitive constructions
  10. Chapter 6  Analytic causative constructions
  11. Chapter 7 Passive constructions
  12. Chapter 8 Differential object marking constructions
  13. Chapter 9  Constructions of comparison
  14. Chapter 10 Aspect system
  15. Chapter 11 Modal system
  16. Chapter 12 Negation
  17. Chapter 13  Interrogatives
  18. Chapter 14 Relative clauses
  19. Chapter 15 Clause linking: Complementation, coordination and adverbial subordination
  20. Chapter 16 Conclusion
  21. Text 1 The man and the tiger
  22. Text 2 The zombie wife
  23. Index