Keith Dede
Biographic Data
| ID | 2006400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Dede |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Dede |
| SIGNATURE | DEDE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lewis & Clark College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Mongghul experience
Mongghul is a Mongolic language spoken in northwestern China. Though the precise number of speakers is unknown, estimates are that around 50,000 people currently speak it. Most speakers of Mongghul are also bilingual in the local dialect of Chinese. We argue that the current contact between Mongghul and Chinese is best understood as a form of “massive borrowing” within Thomason and Kaufman's (1988) framework. Moreover, the borrowing is leading to…
An ablative postposition in the Xining dialect
This article describes a morphosyntactic feature of the Xining dialect that is unique among all Chinese dialects: that is, the use of a postposition to express ablative nominal relationships. The postposition [t[curly-tail lowercase c]ia] is invariably pronounced in the neutral tone and has no cognates in either earlier varieties of Chinese or among present Chinese dialects. The morpheme's origin is shown to have come from a neighboring non-Sinit…
Laughing on the Beacon Tower
The AA. present the songs sung in the context of a series of singing and dancing performances done in March 1996 during the Chinese lunar New Year period in Xi Langqi Village, Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province. The context, Chinese characters, International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription, and an English translation are given for the songs. The music for the songs is also presented and discussed. This study is also noteworthy in that it p…
An ablative postposition in the Xining dialect
This article describes a morphosyntactic feature of the Xining dialect that is unique among all Chinese dialects: that is, the use of a postposition to express ablative nominal relationships. The postposition [t[curly-tail lowercase c]ia] is invariably pronounced in the neutral tone and has no cognates in either earlier varieties of Chinese or among present Chinese dialects. The morpheme's origin is shown to have come from a neighboring non-Sinit…
An ablative postposition in the Xining dialect
This article describes a morphosyntactic feature of the Xining dialect that is unique among all Chinese dialects: that is, the use of a postposition to express ablative nominal relationships. The postposition [t[curly-tail lowercase c]ia] is invariably pronounced in the neutral tone and has no cognates in either earlier varieties of Chinese or among present Chinese dialects. The morpheme's origin is shown to have come from a neighboring non-Sinit…
Laughing on the Beacon Tower
The AA. present the songs sung in the context of a series of singing and dancing performances done in March 1996 during the Chinese lunar New Year period in Xi Langqi Village, Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province. The context, Chinese characters, International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription, and an English translation are given for the songs. The music for the songs is also presented and discussed. This study is also noteworthy in that it p…
The Mongghul experience
Mongghul is a Mongolic language spoken in northwestern China. Though the precise number of speakers is unknown, estimates are that around 50,000 people currently speak it. Most speakers of Mongghul are also bilingual in the local dialect of Chinese. We argue that the current contact between Mongghul and Chinese is best understood as a form of “massive borrowing” within Thomason and Kaufman's (1988) framework. Moreover, the borrowing is leading to…
China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Linguistics and Cultural Studies (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Astrobiology (1 work) · Atmospheric sciences (1 work) · China (1 work)