The Particle Zhe in Northwestern Chinese: A New Type of Contact-Induced Grammatical Change
Xiaolei Fan
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The Particle Zhe in Northwestern Chinese: A New Type of Contact-Induced Grammatical Change

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This book presents an analysis of a particular grammatical phenomenon in Northwestern Chinese, a.k.a. Northwestern Chinese dialects, uncovering a new pattern of contact-induced changes, which can be termed "compromise innovation". In the vast majority of Northwestern Chinese dialects, the imperfective marker Zhe, which behaves like a verb suffix in most Chinese dialects, exhibits a number of peculiar characteristics. The most prominent one is that it occurs in an unusual syntactic position where no verb suffix is expected to occur; i.e., it is placed after the object ("V+O+Zhe") rather than im...