The Syntactic Typology of The Ningbo Dialect

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10.2991/assehr.k.210609.064How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ningbo dialect, syntax, typology, word order, Greenberg’s Universals, dialect preservation

Abstract

The study investigates into the syntactic properties of the Ningbo dialect. The paper gives an overview of the typical word orders of the Ningbo dialect including categories like basic word order in the clause, word order in a nominal domain, and positions of an adposition and the nominal phrase. The study discovers that the basic word order in the Ningbo dialect shows contradictions to the long-standing Greenberg’s language universals, and the paper gives possible explanations to these discrepancies in terms of verb type deciding post/prepositions and head directionality.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hanbo Yang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/10
TI  - The Syntactic Typology of The Ningbo Dialect
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 317
EP  - 321
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210609.064
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210609.064
ID  - Yang2021
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