Interrogative Strategies: An Areal Typology of the Languages of China

by Tianhua Luo

This book deals with how to ask questions in the languages of China. The syntactic, morphological, and lexical forms for distinguishing interrogatives take centre stage; intonation is also dealt with, but more peripherally than question particles, disjunctive and negative constructions, and word order. 140 languages spoken in China are covered coming from four major families: Sino-Tibetan, Altaic, Austronesian and Austro-Asiatic, accompanied by a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027201854
• ISBN13: 9789027201850
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.