Problems in comparative Chinese dialectology : the classification of Miin and Hakka / by David Prager Branner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Branner, David Prager.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 123

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 1861-4302 ; 123

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Dialects.

Chinese language.

Chinese language--Dialects--China--Fujian Sheng.

Hakka dialects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

1. The ideas of Chinese dialect classification

2. Wann'an and the problem of this study

3. Wann'an's affiliation and the cohesiveness of diagnostic features

4. The character of Wann'an dialects

5. Wann'an evidence about Common Miin

6. Conclusion: The place of Miin in the greater history of Chinese

Appendix A: Introduction to the Kengyunn

Appendix Β: The Kengyunn

Appendix C: Index to the Kengyunn

Notes

References

Index of glosses

Index of subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110802849

3110802848

OCLC:

794664435