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The Tangwang Language

An Interdisciplinary Case Study in Northwest China

Dan Xu author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:4th Sep '17

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This book studies the Tangwang language, providing the first comprehensive grammar in English of this Chinese variety, with detailed analysis of its phonology, morphology, and syntax. This fills a gap in the literature, as previously only a few articles on this language were available. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, examining genetic data to determine historical patterns of population migration, as well as linguistic data that focus on the influence of the Dongxiang (Santa) language as a consequence of language contact on the Silk Road. The concluding chapter argues that Tangwang has not yet become a mixed language, and that syntactic borrowing has a stronger impact than lexical borrowing on languages.

ISBN: 9783319592282

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 4321g

184 pages

1st ed. 2017