Once more on the present continuative ending -ing in Chinese

Language Log 2014-03-21

Summary:

On "Savage Minds", Kerim has a new post entitled "How do you pronounce '革命ing'?", which features this initially enigmatic photograph: The photograph shows Taiwanese historian and political activist, Su Beng (aka Shih Ming), in front of a banner that reads: Táidú 台獨, which is short for Táiwān dúlì 台灣獨立 ("Taiwan Independence") Quánmín gémìng ing 全民革命ing […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=11204

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Tags:

borrowing grammar morphology

Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

03/21/2014, 03:00

Date published:

03/21/2014, 01:09