Project of Social Science Achievement Evaluation Committee of Hunan Province of China(XSP2023WXC037);Project of Teaching Reform Research of Hunan Province of China(202401001822)。
Medical English,as a specialized form of English,has attracted considerable attention due to its unique linguistic features.Grammaticalization and lexicalization represent critical mechanisms in the evolution of langu...
In this paper,we discuss two case studies on how prosody has conditioned the evolution of morphology in Mandarin as well as in other Sinitic languages.After a concise overview of Feng’s(1997,1998,2001,2018,inter alia...
The paper aims at investigating the encoding of self-propelled motion events in Homeric Greek in the light of the typology of motion events,taking into account the case of to go.The verbal class of the self-propelled ...
In Yulin dialect,there are three usages of“ji(几)”:interrogative pronouns,numerals,and degree adverbs.When used as an interrogative pronoun,it is generally used to inquire about the number and degree where the inqui...
In Qingdao dialect,“zan gan-er”(趱赶儿),meaning“small amount of time”,always collocates with“duo(多),yi(一),bu(不),mei(没)”etc.,to form many types of quantifiers which hold the similar meaning“brief period”dif...
This paper studies the mechanisms and other possible causes that lead to the modern form of the disposal construction in Chinese, tracing its processes of grammaticalization. The modern form of disposal construction i...
Grammaticalization is not just progressive diachronic changes in the internal language,but there may be grammaticalization stages with different characteristics in the same synchronic state.Start with the two aspects ...
The research aims at giving a detailed description of the linguistic typology of Kalasha, an endangered language, spoken by about 3,000 Kalasha (The most recent demographic research documented 3,254 Kalasha speakers ...