A Reference Grammar of Caijia: An Unclassified Language of Guizhou
Shanshan Lü, "A Reference Grammar of Caijia: An Unclassified Language of Guizhou "
English | ISBN: 3110724650 | 2022 | 628 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 3110724650 | 2022 | 628 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Caijia, [meŋ²¹ni³³ŋoŋ³³] ‘Caijia speech’, is an endangered language in the Sino-Tibetan family with less than 1000 speakers in Hezhang and Weining counties in northwest in Guizhou Province in Southwest China. Its sub-classification remains unclear. It was almost four decades ago when the Caijia language was officially reported for the first time in 1982 by the Language Team of Bureau of Ethnic Identification in Bijie, yet this language has nevertheless remained neither well-described nor studied. This book, a linguistic description of the Xingfa variety of Caijia based on the fieldwork data in Xingfa township of Hezhang county, is the first reference grammar of the Caijia language, covering its sound system, word formation, parts of speech and syntactic structures in fifteen chapters.
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