Review of “Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach” by William Croft
Review of “Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach” by William Croft
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William Croft 对“解释语言变化：一种进化方法”的评论
DOI：
10.1075/fol.10.1.10ans
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发表时间：
2003
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0.5
通讯作者：
U. Ansaldo
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作者：
U. Ansaldo
122书评“受苦”，在闽南语中，ho是从动词中派生出来的，意思是“给予”。第二个区别是介词的数量。与闽南语相比，普通话的介词数量几乎是闽南语的两倍。由于介词在两种方言中所起的作用是相同的，我们可以预期普通话中有更多的介词用于特定的功能范畴，事实也确实如此。例如，被动语态可以用“被”、“让”、“让”、“给”、“艾”和“早”来表示;相比之下，闽南的被动语态只用“和”来表示。(The在第342页上，表格用hoo表示，在表13.1中用ho表示。实际上是同一个介词）。必须祝贺希拉里查佩尔产生了一个高超的专题分组的论文，其多样性的主题是更多的特点，会议程序比编辑的专题卷。书中所涉及的现象并不新鲜，而且其方法更具有描述性和“经验性”，而不是理论性，这完全适合于一本面向普通语言读者的书。作者都是各自领域的优秀学者，他们的贡献为读者提供了一个很好的机会来了解当前中国语言学的一些问题。
122 Book Reviews‘suffer’, and in Southern Min, ho is derived from the verb that means ‘give’. The second difference is the number of prepositions. Compared with Southern Min, Mandarin has nearly twice as many prepositions. Since the functions prepositions perform are the same for both dialects, we expect that Mandarin has more prepositions for a given functional category, which is indeed the case. The passive, for example, can be expressed by bei ‘suffer’, jiao ‘let’, rang ‘let’, gei ‘give’, ai ‘suffer’, and zao ‘receive’; by comparison, the Southern Min counterpart is expressed by ho ‘give’only.(The form is given as hoo on p. 342 and as ho in Table 13.1. These are actually the same preposition.)Hilary Chappell must be congratulated for producing a superb thematic grouping of the papers whose diversity in topic is more characteristic of conference proceedings than an edited thematic volume. The phenomena covered in the book are not new, and the approach is more descriptive and “empirical” than theoretical, which is entirely appropriate for a volume intended for the general linguistic audience. The contributors are excellent scholars in their own areas, and their contributions provide a good opportunity for the reader to gain some insight into current concerns in Chinese linguistics.