Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction1. Synchrony and Diachrony of Sinitic Languages: A Brief History of Chinese Dialects, Hilary ChappellPart II: Typological and Comparative Grammar2. The Development of Locative Markers in the Xiang-Changsha Dialect, Yunji Wu3. A Typology of Evidential Markers in Sinitic Languages, Hilary Chappell4. Verb Complement Constructions in Chinese Dialects: Types and Markers, Christine LamarrePart III: Historical and Diachronic Grammar5. Vestiges of Archaic Chinese Derivational Affixes in Modern Chinese Dialects, Laurent Sagart6. Markers of Predication in Shang Bone Inscriptions, Redouane Djamouri7. On the Modal Auxiliaries of Volition in Classical Chinese, Alain PeyraubePart IV: Yue Grammar8. The Interrogative Construction: (Re)constructing Early Cantonese Grammar, Hung-Nin Samuel Cheung9. The Verb Complement Construction in Historical Perspective with Special Reference to Cantonese, Anne Yue10. Aspects of Contemporary Cantonese Grammar: The Structure and Stratification of Relative Clauses, Stephen Matthews and Virginia YipPart V: Southern Min Grammar11. Semantics and Syntax of Verbal and Adjectival Reduplication in Mandarin and Taiwanese Southern Min, Tsao Feng-Fu12. Competing Morphological Changes in Taiwanese Southern Min, Chinfa Lien13. Aspects of Historical-Comparative Syntax: Functions of Prepositions in Taiwanese and Mandarin, Ying-Che Li