TY  - BOOK
AU  - Djamouri,Redouane
AU  - Lamarre,Christine
AU  - Lefort,Julie
TI  - Contact-Induced Language Change in the History of the Chinese Language
T2  - Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025
SN  - 9789004750081
AV  - DS1 .A4915 
U1  - 950.08 A83296 23
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Languages and Linguistics
KW  - Morphology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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 linguistics—essential reading for anyone interested in how languages evolve in complex sociolinguistic environments
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004750081
ER  -