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Language Contact in Northern China
Chinese and its Neighbouring Languages
Series: - Languages of Asia, Volume: 32
What happens when Chinese is shaped by centuries of contact with Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic, and Tibetic languages? This volume explores this question through striking case studies of lects like Tangwang and Wutun, where Chinese exhibits unexpected features such as OV word order, case suffixes, and restructured verbal morphology. Drawing on rare fieldwork data, this volume reveals how deep multilingual interaction transforms grammatical systems. It offers a unique contribution to the study of language change, typology, and contact linguisticsâessential reading for anyone interested in how languages evolve in complex sociolinguistic environments.
Redouane Djamouri, Director of Research at CNRS and member of CRLAO, specializes in Archaic Chinese syntax and semantics. His recent work explores language contact in China, especially with Altaic languages, and includes field research on Tangwang since 2008.
Christine Lamarre, professor emerita at Inalco and member of CRLAO, specializes in morpho-syntactic variation in Sinitic languages. Her research covers modality, motion, aspect, and tense, with fieldwork in Northern China and studies based on historical Chinese grammar texts.
Julie P.M. Lefort, Associate Professor at INALCO and member of CRLAO, researches Sino-Mongolian language contact in Gansu, focusing on Dongxiang and hybrid varieties like Linxia and Tangwang. Her work combines fieldwork, typology, and contact-induced grammaticalization, with several related publications.
Christine Lamarre, professor emerita at Inalco and member of CRLAO, specializes in morpho-syntactic variation in Sinitic languages. Her research covers modality, motion, aspect, and tense, with fieldwork in Northern China and studies based on historical Chinese grammar texts.
Julie P.M. Lefort, Associate Professor at INALCO and member of CRLAO, researches Sino-Mongolian language contact in Gansu, focusing on Dongxiang and hybrid varieties like Linxia and Tangwang. Her work combines fieldwork, typology, and contact-induced grammaticalization, with several related publications.
List of Figures, Maps and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1 Introductory Perspectives on Language Contact: Northern Sinitic Varieties and Neighbouring Languages
âRedouane Djamouri, Christine Lamarre and Julie Lefort
2 Areal distinctions in Sinitic: focus on Northern China
âGiorgio Francesco Arcodia
3 Northern Sinitic possibility modals: a language contact approach
âChristine Lamarre and Na Song
4 Sociolinguistic Correlates of Language Contact leading to the Formation of two Sinitic Varieties in the GÄnsÅ«-QÄ«nghÇi Area (WÇtún, LÃnxià )
âClaire Saillard
5 Head directionality in Northern Sinitic varieties: An areal-typological and comparative Sino-Tibetan perspective
âChingduang Yurayong, Erika Sandman, Richard Kerbs, Mithun Banerjee and Pui Yiu Szeto
6 Reanalysis of a dual numeral as a conjunction in the Gansu-Qinghai Sprachbund
âKin-wing Kevin Chan
7 Causative and Applicative in Tangwang: Morphological Distinctions and Contact-Induced Restructuration
âRedouane Djamouri
8 Two types of plurality marker in Gan-Qing Mandarin: with reference to the Sanches-Greenberg-Slobin generalization
âXuping Li and Cuiping Cheng
9 Sentence-final particles in Kazakhstani Gansu Dungan and language contact: Focus on =dæ and =khu
âSami Honkasalo, Ular Nurlan and Zhamila Abik
10 Past vs Non-past Opposition in Baoding Mandarin: A Case Study on Two Pairs of Clause-final Enclitic Particles
âNa Song and Christine Lamarre
11 Language Contact and Polysemy of a Grammatical Word in Zhoutun: the Case of ç tÊɤ
âChenlei Zhou
12 Mongolic perspectives on Bilingual verbs: the case of Chinese influence on Dongxiang and the Dörbed Mongolian Community Language
âLianqun Bao and Julie Lefort
13 Revisiting Starostinâs list of Altaic loanwords in Old Chinese
âBingcong Deng
14 Contact-induced changes in the negation system of Dongxiang
âJulie Lefort
15 Influence from Chinese through Language Contact: The Case of Shinekhen Buryat
âYasuhiro Yamakoshi
Index
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1 Introductory Perspectives on Language Contact: Northern Sinitic Varieties and Neighbouring Languages
âRedouane Djamouri, Christine Lamarre and Julie Lefort
Part 1 General Issues on Language Contact in Northern China
2 Areal distinctions in Sinitic: focus on Northern China
âGiorgio Francesco Arcodia
3 Northern Sinitic possibility modals: a language contact approach
âChristine Lamarre and Na Song
4 Sociolinguistic Correlates of Language Contact leading to the Formation of two Sinitic Varieties in the GÄnsÅ«-QÄ«nghÇi Area (WÇtún, LÃnxià )
âClaire Saillard
5 Head directionality in Northern Sinitic varieties: An areal-typological and comparative Sino-Tibetan perspective
âChingduang Yurayong, Erika Sandman, Richard Kerbs, Mithun Banerjee and Pui Yiu Szeto
6 Reanalysis of a dual numeral as a conjunction in the Gansu-Qinghai Sprachbund
âKin-wing Kevin Chan
Part 2 Specific contact-induced features in languages spoken in Northern China
7 Causative and Applicative in Tangwang: Morphological Distinctions and Contact-Induced Restructuration
âRedouane Djamouri
8 Two types of plurality marker in Gan-Qing Mandarin: with reference to the Sanches-Greenberg-Slobin generalization
âXuping Li and Cuiping Cheng
9 Sentence-final particles in Kazakhstani Gansu Dungan and language contact: Focus on =dæ and =khu
âSami Honkasalo, Ular Nurlan and Zhamila Abik
10 Past vs Non-past Opposition in Baoding Mandarin: A Case Study on Two Pairs of Clause-final Enclitic Particles
âNa Song and Christine Lamarre
11 Language Contact and Polysemy of a Grammatical Word in Zhoutun: the Case of ç tÊɤ
âChenlei Zhou
Part 3 Sino-Mongolic contacts from the perspective of lexicon
12 Mongolic perspectives on Bilingual verbs: the case of Chinese influence on Dongxiang and the Dörbed Mongolian Community Language
âLianqun Bao and Julie Lefort
13 Revisiting Starostinâs list of Altaic loanwords in Old Chinese
âBingcong Deng
14 Contact-induced changes in the negation system of Dongxiang
âJulie Lefort
15 Influence from Chinese through Language Contact: The Case of Shinekhen Buryat
âYasuhiro Yamakoshi
Index
This book targets scholars, postgraduate students, and libraries in Chinese linguistics, typology, language contact, and East Asian studies, offering essential insights into multilingualism and grammatical change in Northern China.