Inflectional classifiers in Weining Ahmao: Mirror of the history of a people

Folia Linguistica Historica

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 183-218

  Gerner, Matthias ^a   Bisang, Walter ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ahmao; China; Inflectional classifier; Miao; Social deixis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952073714     PISSN: 0168647X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/flih.2009.001     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Aikhenvald, Alexandra, 2000. Classifiers. A typology of noun categorization devices. Oxford: Oxford University Press
2. Allan, Keith, 1977. Classifiers. Language 53: 285-311
3. Benedict, Paul, 1972. Sino-Tibetan: A conspectus (James Matisoff, contributing editor). New York: Cambridge University Press
4. Benedict, Paul, 1975. Austro-Thai: Language and culture. New Haven: HRAF Press
5. Bickel, Balthasar, Walter Bisang & Yogendra Yavada, 1999. Face vs. empathy: The social foundation of Maithili verb agreement. Linguistics 37: 481-518
6. Bisang, Walter, 1993. Classifiers, quantifiers and class nouns in Hmong. Studies in Language 17: 1-51
7. Bisang, Walter, 1999. Classifiers in East and Southeast Asian languages: Counting and beyond. In Jadranka Gvozdanovic (ed.), Numeral types and changes worldwide, 113-85. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
8. Bisang, Walter, 2002. Classification and the evolution of grammatical structures: a universal perspective. In T. Leuschner (ed.), Language evolution in a typological perspective. Thematic volume of Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF), 289-308. Berlin: Akademie Verlag
9. Björverud, Susanna, 1998. A grammar of Lalo. Ph.D. dissertation. Lund University
10. Bradley, David. 1979. Proto-Loloish. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies No, 39. London: Curzon Press
11. Brown, Penelope & Stephen Levinson, 1978. Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena. In Esther Goody (ed.), Questions and Politeness: Strategies in Social Interaction, 56-310. Cambridge: Cambridge Unviversity Press
12. Campbell, Lyle, 1998. Historical linguistics: An introduction to its principles and procedures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
13. Chen, Rong, 2001. Self-politeness: A proposal. Journal of Pragmatics 33: 87-106
14. Cheung, Siu-Woo, 2004. Miao identity in Western Guizhou: Indigenism and the politics of appropriation in Southwest China during the Republican Period. In N. Tapp, J. Michaud, C. Culas & G. Yia Lee (eds.), Hmong/Miao in Asia, 237-72. Chiang Mai: Silkworms Books
15. Culas, Christian & Jean Michaud, 2004. A contribution to the study of Hmong (Miao) migrations and history. In N. Tapp, J. Michaud, C. Culas and G. Yia Lee (eds.), Hmong/Miao in Asia, 61-96. Chiang Mai: Silkworms Books
16. Corbett, Greville, 1991. Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
17. Dai Qingxia, 1981. Zaiwayu shidong fanchou de xingtai bianhua [On the morphology of the causative category in the Zaiwa language]. Minzu Yuwen 4. 36-41
18. Dai Qingxia, 2001. Zangmian yuzu yuyan shidong fanchou de lishi yanbian [The historical development of the causative category in Tibeto-Burmese languages]. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 29. 1-10
19. Dixon, Robert, 1982. Where have all the adjectives gone? And other essays in semantics and syntax. Berlin: Mouton
20. Dressler, W. & Merlini Barbaresi, 1994. Morphopragmatics: Diminutives and intensifiers in Italian, German and other languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
21. Enwall, Joakim, 1994. A myth become reality: History and development of the Miao written language. Stockholm East Asian Monographs 5 and 6. Stockholm: Stockholm University
22. Gerner, Matthias, 2006. Noun classifiers in Kam and Chinese Kam-Tai languages: Their morphosyntax, semantics and history. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 34: 237-305
23. Gerner, Matthias, 2007. The lexicalization of causative verbs in the Yi group. Folia Linguistica Historica 28: 145-85
24. Gerner, Matthias & Walter Bisang, 2008. Inflectional speaker-role classifiers in Weining Ahmao. Journal of Pragmatics 40. 719-32
25. Gerner, Matthias & Walter Bisang. Forthcoming. Classifier declinations in an isolating language: A field report on Weining Ahmao. Submitted for publication
26. de la Grassière, R., 1898. La catégorie psychologique de la classification revelée par le langage. Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger 45 : 594-624
27. Heine, Bernd & Mechthild Reh, 1984. Grammaticalization and reanalysis in African languages. Hamburg: Buske Verlag
28. Jenks, Robert, 1994. Insurgency and social disorder in Guizhou (The "Miao" Rebellion 1854-1873). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
29. Jurafsky, Daniel, 1996. Universal tendencies in the semantics of the diminutive. Language 72: 533-78
30. Kasper, Gabriele, 1990. Linguistic politeness: Current research issues. Journal of Pragmatics 14: 193-218
31. Kendall, Elliott, 1954. Eyes of the earth: The diary of Samuel Pollard. London: The Cargate Press
32. Kochman, Thomas, 1984. The politics of politeness: Social warrants in mainstream American public etiquette. In Deborah Schiffrin (ed.), Meaning, from, and use in context: Linguistic applications, (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1984), 200-9. Washington D. C.: Georgetown University Press
33. Lakoff, Robin, 1973. The logic of politeness, or minding your p's and q's. Papers from the Annual Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 9: 292-305
34. Lakoff, Robin, 1975. Language and women's place. New York: Harper and Row
35. Lehmann, Winfred, 1992. Historical linguistics: An introduction. London: Routledge
36. Levinson, Stephen, 1983. Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge Unviversity Press
37. Lewis, Alison, 2004. The A-hmao in Northeast Yunnan and Northwest Guizhou Provinces. In N. Tapp, J. Michaud, C. Culas & G. Yia Lee (eds.), Hmong/Miao in Asia, 219-36. Chiang Mai: Silkworms Books
38. Matisoff, James, 1973. The grammar of Lahu. Publications in Linguistics 75. Berkeley: University of California
39. Matisoff, James, 1975. A new Lahu simplex-causative pair: "study/train". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 2: 151-4
40. Matisoff, James, 1976. Lahu causative constructions: Case hierarchies and the morphology/ syntax cycle in a Tibeto-Burman perspective, In Masayoshi Shibatani (ed.), Syntax and Semantics Volume 6: The grammar of causative constructions, 413-42. New York: Academic Press
41. Matisoff, James, 1991. The mother of all morphemes: Augmentatives and diminutives in areal and universal perspective. In M. Ratliff and E. Schiller (eds.), Papers from the first annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics society, 293-349. Tempe, AZ
42. Matthews, Stephen & Virginia Yip, 1994. Cantonese: A comprehensive grammar. London: Routledge
43. Miaozu Jianshi writing committee, 1985. Miaozu Jianshi [Concise History of the Miao Nationality]. Guiyang: Guizhou Minzu Chubanshe [Guizhou Nationalities Press]
44. Niederer, Barbara, 1998. Les langues Hmong-Mjen (Miáo-Yáo): Phonologie historique. Lincom Studies in Asian Linguistics 7. Munich: Lincom Europa
45. Pollard, Walter, 1928. The life of Sam Pollard of China. London: Seeley
46. Quincy, Keith, 1988. Hmong: History of a people. Cheney: Eastern Washington University Press
47. Ratliff, Martha, 2007. Numerals and reckoning in Hmong-Mien. Manscript presented at SEALS 17, 31 August to 2 September 2007, University of Maryland
48. Savina, F. M., 1924. Histoire des Miao. Paris: Société des Missions-Etrangères
49. Smith, Pan, 2002. Modern English-Mienh and Mienh-English Dictionary. Victoria (Canada): Trafford
50. Shi, Rujin, 1997. Miao-Han Han-Miao Cidian [Miao-Han Han-Miao Dictionary]. Changsha: Yuelu Shushe [Yuelu Publishing House]
51. Shils, Edward, 1968. Deference. In J. A. Jackson (ed.), Social stratification, 104-32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
52. Sun Hongkai, 1999. On the category of causative verbs in Tibeto-Burman languages. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 22: 183-99
53. Trask, R. L., 1996. Historical Linguistics. London: Edward Arnolds Publishers
54. Wang, Deguang, 1986. Weining Miaoyu huayu cailiao [Language material in the Weining dialect of the Miao language]. Minzu Yuwen 3: 69-80
55. Wang, Deguang, 1987. Guizhou Weining Miaoyu liangci shiyi [Additional remarks on the classifiers of the Miao language in Weining, Guizhou province]. Minzu Yuwen 5: 36-9
56. Wang, Fushi, 1957. Guizhou Weining Liangci [The classifier in the Weining dialect of the Miao language]. Yuyan Yanjiu 1957: 75-121
57. Wang, Fushi, 1972. The classifier in the Weining dialect of the Miao language in Kweichou. In Miao and Yao linguistic studies: selected articles in Chinese (translated by Chang Yü-Hung and Chu Kwo-ray), Herbert C. Purnell (ed.), 111-85. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
58. Wang, Fushi, 1985. Miaoyu Jianzhi [An outline grammar of Miao]. Beijing: Minzu Chubanshe [Nationalities Press]
59. Weining Minwei, 1997. Weining Yizu, Huizu, Miaozu Zizhixian minzuzhi [Annals of nationalities in Weining Yi, Hui, and Miao Autonomous County]. Guiyang: Guizhou Minzu Chubanshe [Guizhou Nationalities Press]
60. Xiong, Yuyou & Diana Cohen, 2005. Miao-Han-Ying xuexi shiyong shouce [Student's practical Miao-Chinese-English Handbook]. Kunming: Yunnan Minzu Chubanshe [Yunnan Nationalities Press]
61. Zhang, Dan, 1992. "Zhai men" qian de Shimenkan - Jidujiao wenhuaxue Chundianqian bian Miaozu Shehui [The Stone Threshold in front of the "Narrow Door" - Christian culture and Miao people's society on the border regions of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces]. Kunming: Yunnan Jiaoyu Chubanshe [Yunnan Educational Press]
62. Zhang, Yongxiang & Xu Shiren, 1990. Miao-Han Cidian (Qiandongnan fangyan) [Miao-Han Dictionary (Southeast Guizhou dialect)]. Guiyang: Guizhou Minzu Chubanshe [Guizhou Nationalties Press]