31.154, Books: Common Neo-Hakka: A Comparative Reconstruction: Coblin

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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 20:11:34
From: Sandy Ya-Chu Yang [lleditor at gate.sinica.edu.tw]
Subject: Common Neo-Hakka: A Comparative Reconstruction: Coblin

 


Title: Common Neo-Hakka: A Comparative Reconstruction 
Subtitle: 共同新客家話語音系統的比較構擬 
Series Title: Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 63  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
	   http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/english/
	

Book URL: http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/LL/en/monographs.Contect/%E5%85%B1%E5%90%8C%E6%96%B0%E5%AE%A2%E5%AE%B6%E8%A9%B1%E8%AA%9E%E9%9F%B3%E7%B3%BB%E7%B5%B1%E7%9A%84%E6%AF%94%E8%BC%83%E6%A7%8B%E6%93%AC 


Author: W. South Coblin

Electronic: ISBN:  9789865432287 Pages: 833 Price: ----  0 Comment: PDF file


Abstract:

This work undertakes a comparative phonological reconstruction for the
Neo-Hakka dialect group. The term Neo-Hakka is an English rendering of Chinese
新客家話, a new expression now increasingly being used by Chinese dialectologists
and Hakka specialists to refer to what was earlier simply called “Hakka”
(客家話). This Neo-Hakka group includes both the better known “Mainstream Hakka”
dialects of the Méixiàn type and the lesser known ones of southern Jiāngxī and
contiguous areas, whose speakers do not self-identify as ethnically Hakka or
understand Mainstream Hakka when they hear it spoken. Thus, the Common
Neo-Hakka comparative system developed here goes beyond the earlier
Proto-Hakka phonological reconstruction of Keven O’Connor (1976), who worked
exclusively with a number of Mainstream Hakka dialects.

Beyond the broad Neo-Hakka group alluded to above is a set of hitherto
unclassified dialects that bear certain similarities to Neo-Hakka but for
various taxonomic reasons cannot be classified as Hakka proper. These dialects
are phonologically archaic in various ways and so are now called 老客家話by
Chinese linguists, a term we render in English as “Paleo-Hakka”. The present
study will not deal with the Paleo-Hakka dialects, which in our view deserve a
special study of their own.

The reconstructive approach adopted in the present work is the classical
comparative method. The reconstruction is based on data from twenty-seven
Neo-Hakka dialects, which have been chosen to epitomize the maximum number of
phonological distinctions required in the hypothetical proto-language. The
work consists of six chapters, a data appendix of 1368 cognate sets and
reconstructed forms, and an index to the text proper. The first chapter
introduces background, methodology, and the specific materials to be used. The
second, third, and fourth chapters deal with syllable initials, syllable
finals, and tones respectively. The fifth chapter is concerned with dialect
lexicon and the problems involved in reconstruction of full lexical forms, as
opposed to single syllables. The sixth and final chapter discusses relevant
Hakka historical and demographic questions, specific historical phonological
problems, and possible avenues for future research in the history of the Hakka
dialects.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Hakka (hak)

Language Family(ies): Sino-Tibetan


Written In: English  (eng)

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