Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Sprachen und Kulturen Asiens, Afrikas und Ozeaniens 2024.9

Nom­i­nal clas­si­fi­ca­tion in Asia and Ocea­nia: func­tion­al and diachron­ic per­spec­tives
Lin­guists have long been inter­est­ed in sys­tems of nom­i­nal clas­si­fi­ca­tion due to their diverse func­tions as well as cog­ni­tive and cul­tur­al cor­re­lates. Among oth­ers, ongo­ing research has focused on seman­tic, func­tion­al and mor­phosyn­tac­tic prop­er­ties of com­plex sys­tems such as co-occur­ring gen­der and numer­al clas­si­fiers. Such approach­es have typ­i­cal­ly focused on the lan­guages of north-west­ern South Amer­i­ca and Papua New Guinea.

This vol­ume pro­pos­es to fill in a gap in exist­ing research by focus­ing on Asia, based on case stud­ies from lan­guages belong­ing to a wide range of fam­i­lies, i.e., Aus­troasi­at­ic, Aus­trone­sian, Dra­vid­i­an, Hmong-Mien, Indo-Euro­pean, Mon­golic, Sino-Tibetan and Tai-Kadai as well as the lan­guage iso­late Nivkh. Gen­der and clas­si­fiers in these lan­guages are approached with­in sev­er­al dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives, i.e., func­tion­al, typo­log­i­cal and diachron­ic, thus reveal­ing com­plex pat­terns in their lex­i­cal and prag­mat­ic func­tions as well as ori­gin, devel­op­ment and loss. Describ­ing and analysing such prop­er­ties is a unique and inno­v­a­tive con­tri­bu­tion of the vol­ume.
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Wh-island effects in Chi­nese: A for­mal exper­i­men­tal study
This book exam­ines three con­tro­ver­sial gen­er­al­iza­tions con­cern­ing wh-island effects in Chi­nese: argu­ment and adjunct asym­me­try, sub­ject and object asym­me­try, and D‑linked and non-D-linked asym­me­try. Exper­i­ments under the fac­to­r­i­al def­i­n­i­tion of island effects reveal that: (1) both argu­ment and adjunct wh-in-situ are sen­si­tive to the wh-island, dis­play­ing no asym­me­try; (2) sub­ject wh-in-situ man­i­fests a larg­er mag­ni­tude of island effects, where­as object wh-in-situ shows a small­er size due to the con­found­ing of dou­ble name penal­ty, exhibit­ing a spe­cial pat­tern of asym­me­try; (3) D‑linked and non-D-linked who-in-situ evince no asym­me­try, while D‑linked and non-D-linked what-in-situ demon­strate a mar­gin­al asym­me­try.

Find­ings sup­port the the­o­ry of covert wh-move­ment on the inter­pre­ta­tion of Chi­nese wh-in-situ. The pat­tern of wh-island effects can be attrib­uted to the vio­la­tion of local­i­ty prin­ci­ples dur­ing wh-fea­ture move­ment. This book is pri­mar­i­ly tai­lored for researchers inter­est­ed in the study of Chi­nese wh-ques­tions and gen­er­a­tive lin­guis­tics in the broad sense.
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