The Typology Of Motion Events —— An Empirical Study of Chinese Dialects

----- 运动事件的类型学：中国方言的实证研究

ISBN: 9783110335774 出版年：2013 页码：426 Yuk-man Yiu, Carine De Gruyter Mouton

This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wú, Hakka, Mǐn and Cantonese. The author shows that these dialects form a continuum with some exhibiting more characteristics of a verb-framed language than the others. The phenomenon reflects the various stages of typological transformation and grammaticalization that the dialects have undergone.