Establishing a Sprachbund in the Western Lingnan region: conceptual and methodological issues
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چکیده
Abstract It is well-known that Tai-Kadai languages have affected the typological profiles of Southern Sinitic varieties. For example, compared with their northern sisters, varieties display a stronger tendency towards head-initial structures, as in N – compounds for expressing sex animals and post-verbal temporal adverbs. Given China been contact over two millennia, it quite natural to find signs influence therein. Most remarkably, pre-verbal adjunct phrases pre-nominal relative clauses, which are extremely atypical VO but distinctive Sinitic, attested some China. The prevalence such typologically unusual traits among different linguistic groups Lingnan region provides strong support its status area. Devising adopting ‘mutualist’ approach, we analyse data 280 language varieties, believe illustrates strongly supports idea Western qualifies area own right according criteria widely recognized by areal linguists. approach proposed this study can be applied other putative areas around world mechanisms outcomes contact-induced change under specific set ecological conditions.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Folia Linguistica
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1614-7308', '0165-4004']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2021-2003