Alain Peyraube
Biographic Data
| ID | 894335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alain Peyraube |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alain |
| FAMILY NAME | Peyraube |
| SIGNATURE | PEYRAUBE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Preposition Stranding in Archaic and Medieval Chinese
Diachronic Perspectives and Synchronic Variation in Southern Min
Comparatives of inequality in Southern Min
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…
The Case System in Three Sinitic Languages of the Qinghai-Gansu Linguistic Area
Introduction
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On some endangered Sinitic languages spoken in Northwestern China
This paper will examine one of the most characteristic syntactic properties of languages, namely the case system for the following three Sinitic languages spoken in Northwestern China: Línxià (or Hézhōu), Tāngwāng, Gāngōu, which have been sometimes viewed as ‘mixed languages’. An answer to the following main questions will be tentatively suggested in the conclusion: do we really have case suffixes in these languages (cases are a morphological not…
Grammatical change in Sinitic languages and its relation to typology
This chapter sets out to discuss the links between the two domains of historical linguistics and typology, showing that it is actually quite indirect. The three basic mechanisms which govern grammatical change, that is, the processes of reanalysis (including grammaticalization and exaptation), analogy (including the phenomena of lexicalization and/or degrammaticalization), and external borrowing through language contact, only minimally involve ty…
The comparative construction in Sinitic languages
International audience
Modality and Mood in Sinitic
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…
The History of Chinese Grammars in Chinese and Western Scholarly Traditions
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…
A comitative source for object markers in Sinitic languages
The Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas
This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia and the Americas, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s…
Chinese Localizers
Chinese linguistics and typology
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…
La linguistique cognitive
La linguistique a été l'une des disciplines pionnières participant dès le milieu des armées 1950 au « programme cognitiviste », conjointement avec la psychologie et l'intelligence artificielle. Le présent ouvrage a pour objectif de présenter les problématiques théoriques, les recherches actuelles et les acquis de la linguistique cognitive. La première partie de l'ouvrage est consacrée à un panorama des principaux courants contemporains, qui se ré…
L'évolution des structures grammaticales
There are three - and only three - mechanisms of grammatical change: Reanalysis (including the different aspects of grammaticalization), Analogy, and External Borrowing. These three mechanisms, implying processes of de-categorization, or generalization, or language contact, are described in detail. Examples are taken in typologically different languages. The motivations of grammatical change that could trigger off the mechanisms are the following…
On the Modal Auxiliaries of Volition in Classical Chinese
The history of the modal auxiliaries, aptly called wish verbs in Mandarin Chinese (nengyuan dongci fl llni/Jil!]), is extremely complex, and any brief discussion of the subject, as given in several books on Chinese historical syntax (Ohta 1958; Shi Cunzhi 1986; Sun Xbcin 1992) inevitably involves gross oversimplification. It is all the more difficult to determine the main lines of their evolution since the use of the modal auxiliaries of Standard…
Some Reflections on the Sources of the Mashi Wentong
Sur les sources du Ma shi wen tong
La première véritable grammaire chinoise, rédigée par un lettré chinois, date seulement de 1898. Il s'agit du Ma shi wen long (Principes de base pour décrire clairement et de manière cohérente) de Ma Jianzhong (1844-1900). Cette grammaire, nourrie de tradition chinoise, est néanmoins de conception proprement occidentale. Son auteur lui-même l'admis : « Le livre a été écrit en prenant pour modèle des grammaires occidentales. » L'article présente d…
On the Double Object Construction and the Oblique Construction in Cantonese
The double-object construction has always been a controversial issue in linguistic theory. In Chinese we encounter an interesting and peculiar situation: both Mandarin and Cantonese have the dative construction with the indirect object (IO) introduced by a dative preposition (V + DO + Prep. + IO), but when the preposition is absent, the indirect object always precedes the direct object (DO)) in Mandarin (V + IO + DO), while the reverse order is p…
Ordre des mots et changement d'ordre des mots en chinois ancien
Peyraube Alain. Ordre des mots et changement d'ordre des mots en chinois ancien. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 141e année, N. 2, 1997. pp. 533-542
Le cantonais est-il du chinois
Peyraube Alain. Le cantonais est-il du chinois ?. In: Perspectives chinoises, n°34, 1996. pp. 26-29
Les Cantonais sont-ils chinois
Luttes politiques et mass media en Chine depuis la Révolution culturelle
Peyraube Alain. Luttes politiques et mass media en Chine depuis la Révolution culturelle. In: Communications, 28, 1978. Idéologies, discours, pouvoirs. pp. 219-233
Trois études sur les religions chinoises
Peyraube Alain. Trois études sur les religions chinoises. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°35, 1973. pp. 151-158
L'évolution des structures grammaticales
There are three - and only three - mechanisms of grammatical change: Reanalysis (including the different aspects of grammaticalization), Analogy, and External Borrowing. These three mechanisms, implying processes of de-categorization, or generalization, or language contact, are described in detail. Examples are taken in typologically different languages. The motivations of grammatical change that could trigger off the mechanisms are the following…
Sur les sources du Ma shi wen tong
La première véritable grammaire chinoise, rédigée par un lettré chinois, date seulement de 1898. Il s'agit du Ma shi wen long (Principes de base pour décrire clairement et de manière cohérente) de Ma Jianzhong (1844-1900). Cette grammaire, nourrie de tradition chinoise, est néanmoins de conception proprement occidentale. Son auteur lui-même l'admis : « Le livre a été écrit en prenant pour modèle des grammaires occidentales. » L'article présente d…
On some endangered Sinitic languages spoken in Northwestern China
This paper will examine one of the most characteristic syntactic properties of languages, namely the case system for the following three Sinitic languages spoken in Northwestern China: Línxià (or Hézhōu), Tāngwāng, Gāngōu, which have been sometimes viewed as ‘mixed languages’. An answer to the following main questions will be tentatively suggested in the conclusion: do we really have case suffixes in these languages (cases are a morphological not…
Trois études sur les religions chinoises
Peyraube Alain. Trois études sur les religions chinoises. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°35, 1973. pp. 151-158
Luttes politiques et mass media en Chine depuis la Révolution culturelle
Peyraube Alain. Luttes politiques et mass media en Chine depuis la Révolution culturelle. In: Communications, 28, 1978. Idéologies, discours, pouvoirs. pp. 219-233
Les Cantonais sont-ils chinois
Le cantonais est-il du chinois
Peyraube Alain. Le cantonais est-il du chinois ?. In: Perspectives chinoises, n°34, 1996. pp. 26-29
On the Double Object Construction and the Oblique Construction in Cantonese
The double-object construction has always been a controversial issue in linguistic theory. In Chinese we encounter an interesting and peculiar situation: both Mandarin and Cantonese have the dative construction with the indirect object (IO) introduced by a dative preposition (V + DO + Prep. + IO), but when the preposition is absent, the indirect object always precedes the direct object (DO)) in Mandarin (V + IO + DO), while the reverse order is p…
Ordre des mots et changement d'ordre des mots en chinois ancien
Peyraube Alain. Ordre des mots et changement d'ordre des mots en chinois ancien. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 141e année, N. 2, 1997. pp. 533-542
Sur les sources du Ma shi wen tong
La première véritable grammaire chinoise, rédigée par un lettré chinois, date seulement de 1898. Il s'agit du Ma shi wen long (Principes de base pour décrire clairement et de manière cohérente) de Ma Jianzhong (1844-1900). Cette grammaire, nourrie de tradition chinoise, est néanmoins de conception proprement occidentale. Son auteur lui-même l'admis : « Le livre a été écrit en prenant pour modèle des grammaires occidentales. » L'article présente d…
On the Modal Auxiliaries of Volition in Classical Chinese
The history of the modal auxiliaries, aptly called wish verbs in Mandarin Chinese (nengyuan dongci fl llni/Jil!]), is extremely complex, and any brief discussion of the subject, as given in several books on Chinese historical syntax (Ohta 1958; Shi Cunzhi 1986; Sun Xbcin 1992) inevitably involves gross oversimplification. It is all the more difficult to determine the main lines of their evolution since the use of the modal auxiliaries of Standard…
Some Reflections on the Sources of the Mashi Wentong
L'évolution des structures grammaticales
There are three - and only three - mechanisms of grammatical change: Reanalysis (including the different aspects of grammaticalization), Analogy, and External Borrowing. These three mechanisms, implying processes of de-categorization, or generalization, or language contact, are described in detail. Examples are taken in typologically different languages. The motivations of grammatical change that could trigger off the mechanisms are the following…
La linguistique cognitive
La linguistique a été l'une des disciplines pionnières participant dès le milieu des armées 1950 au « programme cognitiviste », conjointement avec la psychologie et l'intelligence artificielle. Le présent ouvrage a pour objectif de présenter les problématiques théoriques, les recherches actuelles et les acquis de la linguistique cognitive. La première partie de l'ouvrage est consacrée à un panorama des principaux courants contemporains, qui se ré…
Chinese linguistics and typology
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 Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas
This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia and the Americas, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s…
Chinese Localizers
A comitative source for object markers in Sinitic languages
The History of Chinese Grammars in Chinese and Western Scholarly Traditions
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…
Grammatical change in Sinitic languages and its relation to typology
This chapter sets out to discuss the links between the two domains of historical linguistics and typology, showing that it is actually quite indirect. The three basic mechanisms which govern grammatical change, that is, the processes of reanalysis (including grammaticalization and exaptation), analogy (including the phenomena of lexicalization and/or degrammaticalization), and external borrowing through language contact, only minimally involve ty…
The comparative construction in Sinitic languages
International audience
Modality and Mood in Sinitic
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…
The Case System in Three Sinitic Languages of the Qinghai-Gansu Linguistic Area
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
On some endangered Sinitic languages spoken in Northwestern China
This paper will examine one of the most characteristic syntactic properties of languages, namely the case system for the following three Sinitic languages spoken in Northwestern China: Línxià (or Hézhōu), Tāngwāng, Gāngōu, which have been sometimes viewed as ‘mixed languages’. An answer to the following main questions will be tentatively suggested in the conclusion: do we really have case suffixes in these languages (cases are a morphological not…
Diachronic Perspectives and Synchronic Variation in Southern Min
Comparatives of inequality in Southern Min
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…
Preposition Stranding in Archaic and Medieval Chinese
Philosophy (19 works) · Linguistics (16 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (11 works) · History (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works)