Hilary Chappell

Biographic Data

ID223188
NAMEHilary Chappell
GIVEN NAMESHilary
FAMILY NAMEChappell
SIGNATURECHAPPELL H
AFFILIATIONSCentre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale
ORCID0000-0001-8063-2232
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS21
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT6
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • Tone Morphemes in Sinitic

    Hilary ChappellARTICLEJournal of Chinese linguistics2023

    Tone morphemes are used in the coding of a variety of grammatical functions in Sinitic languages: These include plural formation of personal pronouns, the diminutive forms of nouns, as well as different kinds of perfective and completive aspect marking, reported for dialects located in non-contiguous areas of China in the north and the south. With respect to verbal morphology, we first examine the different processes and stages of morphologizatio…

  • From oblique to core case in the Southern Min languages

    Open AccessHilary ChappellARTICLEJournal of Historical Linguistics2023

    This study sets out to discuss the evolution from oblique to core case as a manifestation of overtly-marked nominative-accusative alignment in Sinitic languages. This is due to the emergence of a type of ‘optional’ marking on preverbal direct objects in a construction type that has become widespread in Sinitic ( Chappell & Verstraete 2019 ). In particular, I examine spoken discourse data from Taiwanese Southern Min whose comitative preposition, k…

  • A semantic typology of location, existence, possession and copular verbs

    Open AccessHilary Chappell, Shanshan LuARTICLELinguistics2022Cited by: 2References: 44

    This study is based on a sample of 116 languages from the Mainland East and Southeast Asian linguistic area. Its first objective is to examine four distinct synchronic patterns of areal polysemy, created by the semantic domains of copular, locative, existential and possessive verbs and the constructions they form. As a consequence, its second objective is to model the diachronic change underlying four language types identified on this basis from …

  • Comparatives of inequality in Southern Min

    Hilary Chappell, Alain Peyraube et al.CHAPTERDiachronic Perspectives and…2020

    Our aim in this article is to evaluate Southern Min comparative constructions of inequality in terms of the evolution of different structural types from 15th to 21st centuries. The study is based on data observed in local operas and missionary texts, written mainly in Southern Min. An examination of the five extant versions of the Lì Jìng Jì 荔鏡記 and the Lì Zhī Jì 荔枝記, in addition to seven other local operas reveals that there have been three main…

  • Southern Min

    Hilary ChappellCHAPTERMainland Southeast Asia…2019

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  • Topicality and the typology of predicative possession

    Open AccessHilary Chappell, Denis CreisselsARTICLELinguistic Typology2019

    Recent accounts on the typology of predicative possession, including those by Stassen, recognise a Topic Possessive type with the possessee coded like the figure in an existential predication, and the possessor coded as a topic that is not subcategorised by the predicate and is not related to any syntactic position in the comment, literally: As for Possessor, there is Possessee. The Asian region is explicitly singled out as being a Topic Possessi…

  • Optional and alternating case marking

    Open AccessHilary Chappell, Jean‐christophe VerstraeteARTICLELanguage and Linguistics Compass2019Cited by: 2References: 87

    This paper presents a survey of the typology and diachrony of optional and alternating case marking, in the context of related phenomena such as referent- and construction-based splits. While there is much recent work in this area, driven by text-based approaches to language description, as well as quantitative and areal approaches to typology, the domain remains somewhat scattered, conceptually and terminologically. We chart the relevant phenome…

  • From verb of saying to discourse marker in Southern Min

    Hilary ChappellCHAPTERAspects of Grammaticalization2016

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  • The comparative construction in Sinitic languages

    Hilary Chappell, Hilary M Chappell et al.CHAPTERDiversity in Sinitic Languages2015

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  • Modality and Mood in Sinitic

    Hilary Chappell, Alain PeyraubeBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Modality…2015

    After defining auxiliary verbs as a grammatical category in Sinitic languages, this chapter sets out to analyze the notion of modality as expressed primarily by the Chinese modal verbs. Beginning with a brief sketch of their diachronic evolution, we proceed to treat this category in each of three major Sinitic languages, namely, Standard Mandarin, Hong Kong Cantonese, and Taiwanese Southern Min (Hokkien). It is shown that the main modal verbs pos…

  • Diversity in Sinitic Languages

    Hilary Chappell, Hilary M ChappellBOOKDiversity in Sinitic Languages2015

  • The History of Chinese Grammars in Chinese and Western Scholarly Traditions

    Hilary Chappell, Alain PeyraubeARTICLELanguage & History2014

    This article evaluates the scientific contribution of Western scholars and missionaries in the compilation of a large number of descriptive grammars for Chinese languages which appeared during the period from the late sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries. This is all the more interesting, given that the native tradition of grammatical studies only began to develop at a very late period in China’s history, the first real grammar being publis…

  • Ya33 ‘give’ as a valency increaser in Jinghpo nuclear serialization

    Guozhen Peng, Hilary ChappellARTICLEStudies in Language2011

    This paper analyzes serial verb constructions in Jinghpo formed by ya33 ‘give’, arguing that it has the function of a valency–increasing device in nuclear serialization: The use of ya33 allows the licensing of an additional beneficiary argument as a core argument to the lexical verb. In a new twist, however, on the evolution of give verbs, we demonstrate that the benefactive usage is extended to malefactive semantics in a distinct, derived struct…

  • A comitative source for object markers in Sinitic languages

    Open AccessHilary Chappell, Alain Peyraube et al.ARTICLEJournal of East Asian Linguistics2011

  • Chinese Localizers

    Hilary Chappell, Alain PeyraubeCHAPTERSpace in languages of China2008

  • Variation in the grammaticalization of complementizers from verba dicendi in Sinitic languages

    Open AccessHilary ChappellARTICLELinguistic Typology2008

    Exploring the semantic encoding of a group of crosslinguistically uncommon “spatial-coordinate demonstratives”, this work establishes the existence of demonstratives whose function is to project angular search domains, thus invoking proper coordinate systems (or “frames of reference”). What is special about these distinctions is that they rely on a spatial asymmetry in relativizing a demonstrative referent (representing the Figure) to the deictic…

  • Chinese linguistics and typology

    Open AccessHilary Chappell, Li Ming et al.ARTICLELinguistic Typology2007

    1. Introduction China possesses rich linguistic resources which remain relatively untapped: the ten main Sinitic languages or dialect groups account for roughly 93% of the population (Mandarin, Jin, Xiang, Gan, Hui, Wu, Min, Kejia, Yue, and Pinghua); the remaining 7% comprise the many different “minority” languages in long term contact with Sinitic such as Tibeto-Burman, Mongolian, Hmong, and Tai. In an almost unprecedented state of affairs, writ…

  • The Universal Syntax of Semantic Primes in Mandarin Chinese

    Hilary ChappellCHAPTERMeaning and universal grammar2002

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  • Sinitic grammar

    Hilary ChappellBOOKSinitic grammar2001

  • The Double Unaccusative Construction in Sinitic Languages

    Hilary ChappellCHAPTERExternal Possession (Typological…1999

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  • Degenerate cases of body parts in Middle Dutch

    K Burridge, Hilary Chappell et al.CHAPTERGrammar of Inalienability1996

  • The expression of concepts of the personal domain and indivisibility in Indo-European languages

    Charles Bally, Hilary Chappell et al.CHAPTERGrammar of Inalienability1996

    L’expression des idées de sphère personnelle et de solidarité dans les langues indo-européennes by CHARLES BALLY (1926)

  • Prolegomena to a theory of inalienability

    William B Mcgregor, Hilary Chappell et al.CHAPTERGrammar of Inalienability1996

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  • Inalienability and the personal domain in Mandarin Chinese discourse

    Hilary Chappell, William McgregorCHAPTERGrammar of Inalienability1996

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  • The Grammar of Inalienability

    William B Mcgregor, Hilary Chappell et al.BOOKGrammar of Inalienability1996

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