24.4164, Books: Situ in Situ: Towards a Dialectology of Jiarong (Rgyalrong): Gates

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:37:45
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Situ in Situ: Towards a Dialectology of Jiarong (Rgyalrong): Gates

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Title: Situ in Situ: Towards a Dialectology of Jiarong (Rgyalrong) 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 80  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
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Book URL: http://www.lincom-shop.eu/ 

Author: Jesse P. Gates

Paperback: ISBN:  9783895864728 Pages: 172 Price: Europe EURO 66.80

Abstract:

The language varieties classified under the official ISO heading Jiarong [ISO 639-3: jya],  a.k.a. rGyalrong, spoken in parts of the mountainous north-western Sìchuān province of  China, have been generally accepted as a single, distinct, synchronic language belonging  to the rGyalrongic subgroup within Tibeto-Burman. The research provided in this thesis  casts doubt on the hypothesis that rGyalrong is a single synchronic language and reveals  some of the previously undocumented variation within rGyalrongic. 

The research in this  study provides evidence that intelligibility of a represent-ative lect from the east-central rGyalrongic region is low among speakers of many lects in the southern rGyalrongic  region. In addition, ethnic identity at the lowest embedded layer is not cohesive  throughout the rGyalrongic regions. Language attitudes, contact, ethnohistory, perceptual  dialectology, core lexical comparisons, and structural comparisons are also examined. As  a result rGyalrong emerges as five distinct languages Situ, South-central, Japhug, Tshobdun, Zbuwith Situ and Japhug having the most robust evidence. This study integrates the field research of the authorincluding the first rigorous intelligibility testing among rGyalrongic language varieties as well as previous research by external  sources.

Linguistic Field(s): Genetic Classification
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Jiarong (jya)

Written In: English  (eng)

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