29.1073, Books: Southern Min: Kwok

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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:28:57
From: Giana Georgi [Giana.Georgi at taylorandfrancis.com]
Subject: Southern Min: Kwok

 


Title: Southern Min 
Subtitle: Comparative Phonology and Subgrouping 
Series Title: Routledge Studies in East Asian Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
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Book URL: https://www.routledge.com/Southern-Min-Comparative-Phonology-and-Subgrouping/Kwok/p/book/9781138943650 


Author: Bit-Chee Kwok

Hardback: ISBN:  9781138943650 Pages: 218 Price: U.S. $ 140


Abstract:

Southern Mǐn refers to a group of Chinese dialects spoken mainly in Southeast
China and Taiwan. This group occupies a special position in the study of
Chinese dialects, not only because of its large population of speakers (around
48 million) but also because of its preservation of various archaic linguistic
features long lost in other dialects. In this book, B.C. Kwok applies the
comparative method on new fieldwork data to reconstruct the common sound
system of ‘Proto-Southern Mǐn’, from which all modern Southern Mǐn varieties
emerged. The syllable initials, finals and tonal categories of Proto-Southern
Mǐn are illustrated by more than 500 examples. In addition, this book offers
an alternative view on the subgrouping of 12 Southern Mǐn varieties. It
proposes that the Quánzhōu dialect and the Zhāngzhōu dialect form the two main
branches of the dialect group. This book should be of great interest to
advanced students and scholars in the fields of historical linguistics and
Chinese dialectology.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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