Review: Lü Shanshan, A Reference Grammar of Caijia, An Unclassified Language of Guizhou (original) (raw)

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 2023

Abstract

Caijia 蔡家 is a Trans-Himalayan (or Sino-Tibetan) language located in south-west China. While the Caijia people (or meŋ21ni33) have been known from Chinese sources for several hundred years (p. 2), the language was only described in the 1980s. For a long time, the only widely accessible information about the language was a short grammatical sketch produced in Chinese by Bo Wenze 薄文泽 in 2004. The present book by Lü Shanshan 吕珊珊 represents the first comprehensive grammar of Caijia. It finally makes this remarkable language available for general linguists as well as researchers of the Mainland Southeast Asian (MSEA) area. ...

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