Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology

The Classification of Miin and Hakka

von David Prager Branner

477 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik Vergleichende Linguistik Umgangssprache, Mundart, Dialekt
• ISBN: 9783110158311
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.12.1999
• Größe: 23 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: de Gruyter Mouton