A handbook of Sinitic languages, dialects, and non-standard Mandarin / Cornelius C. Kubler and Clement Chu Sing Lau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kubler, Cornelius C., author.

Lau, Clement Chu Sing, author.

Series:

Cambria sinophone world series

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Dialects.

Chinese language.

Chinese language--Transliteration.

Physical Description:

xvi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

monochrome

illustration

map

Place of Publication:

Amherst, New York : Cambria Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English with some Chinese in traditional, simplified characters and Chinese transliterations (in Wade-Giles and Pinyin).

Summary:

"This book is an invaluable and essential guide to speech forms such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, and Shanghainese, which are very distinct from one another. It also outlines commonly encountered varieties of nonstandard Mandarin, both those varieties that are spoken as people's native language and those that are spoken by those who have learned Mandarin as a second language but are influenced by their native language when speaking Mandarin. In addition, this book provides background information about the most important Sinitic languages and dialects, including their geographical distribution and position in the societies where they are spoken. It describes and compares the major Sinitic language families to reveal both their similarities and their considerable structural diversity. It also delineates several common varieties of non-standard Mandarin that have been influenced by the non-Mandarin Sinitic languages, presenting the results of research in Chinese dialectology in a way that will be interesting and useful for both beginning students of Chinese linguistics and scholars of the Chinese language, while also providing knowledge about language contact and linguistic change in Sinitic language-speaking societies."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Overview

Mandarin

Wu

Xiang

Gan

Hakka

Yue

Min

Non-standard Mandarin

appendix I. Non-standard Mandarin to standard Mandarin conversion table.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781638571902

1638571902

9781638573937

163857393X

OCLC:

1535213577

Publisher Number:

90102528703