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Caijia, [men(2)(1)ni(3)(3)non(3)(3)] 'Caijia speech', is an
endangered language in the Sino-Tibetan family with less than 1000
speakers in Hezhang and Weining counties in northwest in Guizhou
Province in Southwest China. Its sub-classification remains
unclear. It was almost four decades ago when the Caijia language
was officially reported for the first time in 1982 by the Language
Team of Bureau of Ethnic Identification in Bijie, yet this language
has nevertheless remained neither well-described nor studied. This
book, a linguistic description of the Xingfa variety of Caijia
based on the fieldwork data in Xingfa township of Hezhang county,
is the first reference grammar of the Caijia language, covering its
sound system, word formation, parts of speech and syntactic
structures in fifteen chapters. Being analytic, Caijia presents
many common grammatical features attested in East and Southeast
Asian languages, for example, compounds, quadrisyllabic idiomatic
expressions or elaborate expressions, lack of inflection, a
classifier system, a strong relationship between nominalization and
relativization, pro-drop and grammaticalization of verbs. Moreover,
Caijia shares more similarities with Sinitic languages. Apart from
these common areal features, this book will also reveal some
special features of Caijia.
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