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Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology: The Classification of Miin and Hakka

By David Prager Branner

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
1999
ISBN
3110158310, 9783110158311
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
62 MB (65314577 bytes)
Series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 123
Pages
477\492
Time added
2016-10-23 05:36:00
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Description

This book discusses the methodology of systematic Chinese Dialect classification, with particular attention to the conservative Miin and Hakka groups spoken in southern China. The primary linguistic methodology employed is the historical-comparative method, and the dialects chosen as examples of classification are those spoken in and around the township of Wann'an in western Fukien's Longyan country. The book features extensive comparative tables of dialect forms, and a two-hundred page appendix outlining the diasystem of the four principal Wann'an dialects.

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