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Table of Contents List of Figures and Maps List of Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Chinfa Lien and Alain Peyraube 2. Comparatives of inequality in Southern Min: a study in diachronic change from 15th to 21st centuries Hilary Chappell, Alain Peyraube, Song Na 3. The emergence of obligative modal tioh8 in Southern Min: a change induced by semantic-pragmatic factors Ting-ting Christina Hsu 4. Negation of dynamic modals with DIT in Hainan Min Huichi Lee 5. Word change and language change: a case of as a coordinating conjunction from Archaic Chinese gong to ka7 in Taiwanese Southern Min Lin Jang Ling Lin 6. Exploration of the benefactive marker kang7 in Ming Qing Southern Min script Chian-tang Su 7. Taiwanese Southern Min hoo7 and its counterparts in the Southern Min varieties in Quemoy and Quanzhou Chai-yin Hu 8. The etymology and grammaticalization of the continuative aspect marker le(h)4: a survey from the historical documents Manjun Chen 9. Kong2 as a verb for saying 'on the move' in Taiwanese Southern Min Chinfa Lien 10. Purposives in Taiwanese Southern Min Chinfa Lien and May Wang

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