Sinitic languages are very often described as tenseless, since they are generally seen as
lacking 'true'grammatical markers of tense: thus, the interpretation of time reference relies on …

Handwritten in the seventeenth century, the Arte de la lengua chio chiu is the oldest extant
grammar of the Chinese vernacular known as Southern Min or Hokkien, and a spectacular …

This analysis sets out to specifically discuss the polyfunctionality of 跟[kai 55] in Waxiang
(Sinitic), whose lexical source is the verb 'to follow'. Amongst its various uses, we find a …

A fundamental problem in typology and universals research is the identification of linguistic
categories across languages. The same problem arises in the documentation of a particular …

This chapter sets out to demonstrate the great diversity to be found in Sinitic languages from
both angles of morphosyntax and grammaticalization. The aim of the chapter is to see if it is …

This study explores the range and diversity of the typological features of Mandarin, the
largest dialect group within the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan family. Feeding the …

After a presentation of the main grammars of Chinese languages produced by Europeans
during this period, the aptness of their theoretical frameworks is tested by analysing the …

Southern Min is a major Chinese language of wider communication in many countries of
Southeast Asia with a conservative estimate of seven million speakers in this region, the …

In Chinese languages, when a direct object occurs in a non-canonical position preceding
the main verb, this SOV structure can be morphologically marked, for example, by kā 共<'to …

Within the Mainland Southeast Asian (MSEA) linguistic area (eg Matisoff 2003; Bisang 2006;
Enfield 2005, 2011, Comrie 2007), some languages are said to be in the core of the …