| Author's Preface |
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| Acknowledgemes |
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| Abbreviations and Symbols |
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The
Language and Its Speakers |
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33 | (5) |
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Group
name and language name |
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33 | (3) |
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36 | (2) |
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38 | (6) |
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38 | (1) |
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39 | (3) |
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42 | (2) |
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Sociolinguistic Situation |
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44 | (3) |
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47 | (24) |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (2) |
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52 | (3) |
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55 | (11) |
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66 | (1) |
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67 | (2) |
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69 | (1) |
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69 | (1) |
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70 | (1) |
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71 | (4) |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (3) |
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The Sound System of Maonan |
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75 | (44) |
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75 | (1) |
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75 | (1) |
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75 | (6) |
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Simple initial consonants |
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75 | (3) |
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Complex
initial consonants |
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78 | (3) |
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81 | (1) |
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81 | (2) |
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81 | (1) |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (5) |
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88 | (2) |
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90 | (17) |
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The relationship between initials
and tones |
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93 | (1) |
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Complementary distribution of
pre-nasalized stops and pre-glottalized stops |
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93 | (7) |
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100 | (1) |
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101 | (4) |
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105 | (2) |
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107 | (1) |
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Comparative Phonology Between Maonan and Other Kam-Tai Languages |
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108 | (3) |
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Phonology of Chinese Loans |
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111 | (6) |
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Phonology of words related to Middle Chinese |
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112 | (2) |
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Words related to Modern Chinese |
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114 | (3) |
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117 | (1) |
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117 | (2) |
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Word Formation and Morphological Processes in Maonan |
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119 | (50) |
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119 | (1) |
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119 | (32) |
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120 | (26) |
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146 | (5) |
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151 | (2) |
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Reduplication or echo classifiers or nouns |
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152 | (1) |
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153 | (1) |
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Disyllabic Monomorphemic Words |
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153 | (1) |
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154 | (12) |
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155 | (7) |
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162 | (4) |
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166 | (3) |
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A Functional Typological Sketch of Maonan Syntax |
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169 | (54) |
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169 | (1) |
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169 | (8) |
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169 | (1) |
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170 | (7) |
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177 | (14) |
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178 | (3) |
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181 | (2) |
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183 | (7) |
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190 | (1) |
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191 | (2) |
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193 | (4) |
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194 | (1) |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (1) |
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196 | (1) |
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Comparative
Constructions |
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197 | (8) |
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198 | (1) |
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199 | (1) |
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Comparison without a comparative marker |
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200 | (2) |
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Comparison without a standard |
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202 | (3) |
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Superlative constructions |
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205 | (1) |
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205 | (5) |
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Postmodifying relative clauses |
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205 | (2) |
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207 | (3) |
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Premodifying relative clauses |
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210 | (1) |
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210 | (4) |
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Purposive and Resultative Constructions |
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214 | (6) |
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214 | (3) |
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Resultative constructions |
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217 | (3) |
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220 | (1) |
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221 | (2) |
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223 | (48) |
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223 | (1) |
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Unrestricted Neutralization of Semantic Roles |
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223 | (1) |
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Nominative/Accusative Markings of Classifier Reduplicates |
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224 | (1) |
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225 | (3) |
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228 | (7) |
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Interrelationship between subject and topic |
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229 | (4) |
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Interrelationship between topicalization and topic |
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233 | (2) |
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235 | (4) |
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Passive
meaning without a passive marker |
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235 | (2) |
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237 | (2) |
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239 | (7) |
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240 | (2) |
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242 | (1) |
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243 | (1) |
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Special
intransitive clause: zerovalent verb |
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244 | (2) |
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246 | (7) |
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Relation between N1 and V1 and
V2 |
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247 | (1) |
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Relation between N2 and V1 and
V2 |
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248 | (1) |
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Relation between the VPs in
serial verb construction |
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249 | (4) |
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253 | (2) |
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255 | (7) |
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262 | (7) |
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262 | (5) |
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Emphatic construction and cleft construction |
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267 | (2) |
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269 | (2) |
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Tense, Aspects and Related Grammatical Operations |
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271 | (38) |
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271 | (1) |
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271 | (1) |
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272 | (16) |
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272 | (1) |
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The perfect and current relevance |
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273 | (3) |
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276 | (2) |
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278 | (5) |
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283 | (2) |
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285 | (3) |
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288 | (1) |
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288 | (17) |
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289 | (13) |
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302 | (3) |
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305 | (4) |
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Grammaticalization and Lexicalization |
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309 | (36) |
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309 | (1) |
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309 | (19) |
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From verb to aspect marker |
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310 | (5) |
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From
verbs to manner and case markers |
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315 | (4) |
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319 | (2) |
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From verb to complement marker: vε4
'make, do' |
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321 | (1) |
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From verb to benefactive and
passive marker: ?na:k7 'give' |
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322 | (3) |
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From
noun to nominal prefix |
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325 | (2) |
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From adjective to adverb: sεu5
'clean' > 'completely, entirely' |
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327 | (1) |
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328 | (15) |
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From adverbial phrase to monosyllabic adverb
denoting negative condition: kam3ja:i6 → kam3 |
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329 | (1) |
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From jaη6ka5 'like that' to clause linker ga6 |
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330 | (1) |
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From 'brave' to 'be good at': jocη1 |
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331 | (1) |
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From 'listen' to 'think': ?ni3 |
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332 | (1) |
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From demonstrative 'this' to temporal adverb: na:i6 |
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333 | (1) |
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334 | (3) |
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'Face' and 'back': from spatial to temporal concepts |
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337 | (1) |
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Shift of pronoun category: nda:u1 = se1 |
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338 | (2) |
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340 | (3) |
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343 | (2) |
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345 | (8) |
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The Language and Its Speakers |
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345 | (1) |
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346 | (1) |
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347 | (1) |
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347 | (2) |
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349 | (1) |
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350 | (1) |
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Grammaticalization and Lexicalization |
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350 | (1) |
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351 | (2) |
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APPENDIX I: TRANSCRIPTION OF MAONAN STORIES |
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353 | (48) |
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353 | (6) |
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359 | (14) |
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373 | (6) |
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379 | (7) |
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386 | (15) |
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APPENDIX II: MAONAN SONG SAMPLES |
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401 | (4) |
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401 | (1) |
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402 | (1) |
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403 | (2) |
| References |
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405 | (6) |
| Index |
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