Mongolic Perspectives on Bilingual Verbs: The Case of Chinese Influence on Dongxiang and the Dörbed Mongolian Community Language
Résumé
This study examines bilingual verbs in two Mongolic languages of China, Dongxiang (Gansu) and the Dörbed Mongolian Community Language (Heilongjiang), where Chinese functions as the donor language in bilingual speech and the Mongolic languages as matrix languages. In bilingual communities, bilingual verbs consist of a lexical item from a donor language that is integrated into the matrix language, with various strategies of integration documented for a wide range of different languages spoken around the world. We analyse how sociolinguistic context, community identity, and the specific variety of Chinese involved affect the morphosyntactic features of bilingual verbs in each language. Dongxiang, spoken in a stable, religion-centred community with long-term bilingualism due to historical contacts with the Chinese variety of Linxia, contrasts with the more recent and variable bilingualism in Dörbed Mongolian, shaped by Northeast Mandarin influence. Using Muysken’s framework (2000) for bilingual verbs, we explore if universal patterns in bilingual verb integration apply to these cases. We also assess Matras’ verb borrowing continuum (2009) to understand how Dongxiang’s and Dörbed's borrowed verb structures are shaped. Key words: Bilingual verbs, Mongolic languages, bilingualism, Dörbed, Dongxiang, Dongbei dialect, Linxia dialect
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