30.1591, Books: Zhangzhou Southern Min: Huang

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Subject: 30.1591, Books: Zhangzhou Southern Min: Huang

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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 22:50:34
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Zhangzhou Southern Min: Huang

 


Title: Zhangzhou Southern Min 
Subtitle: Rhyme Tables, Homonyms, Heteronyms, Vernacular Documentation 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Chinese Linguistics 12  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/LSCHL-12-Zhangzhou-Southern-Min/en 


Author: Yishan Huang

Hardback: ISBN:  9783862889358 Pages: 386 Price: Europe EURO 168


Abstract:

This book provides an accessible, up-to-date documentation of Zhangzhou
speech, a source of Hokkienese that is spreading in Mainland China and beyond.
It is the first to adopt the methods of Sinitic dialectology to document
Zhangzhou Southern Min to an audience beyond the Chinese community. It
presents some 2105 syllables that are used by the native speakers in terms of
rhyme tables, showing 5215 gaps that may be further explored with respect to
how constraints govern segmental sequencing, and segmental-suprasegmental
assigning in utterances. The study tabulates 5712 monosyllabic morphemes,
represented by individual characters with English glosses, across 2105
syllables, while containing an inventory of homophones and homographs.
Examined are some 900 heteronyms across 793 diphonetic, 89 triphonetic, 14
quadriphonetic, and 4 quintphonetic characters, while exploring how the
different pronunciations are related to each other.

The book also documents 1405 local lexical items across different semantic
domains; 74 proverbs across sayings, allegorical sayings, quadrisyllabic and
trisyllabic idioms; as well as 10 rhyming songs. These reflect how the local
cultures are embodied and passed down in terms of speech acts, and facilitate
future studies in semantics, pragmatics, and/or discourse analysis.

Yishan Huang recently completed her PhD at the Australian National University
in 2018 with her thesis on tones in the Zhangzhou variety of Southern Min. Her
primary research interest resides in segmental and suprasegmental phonetics
and phonology of Sinitic languages, with an emphasis on quantitative analyses.
She currently focuses on investigating and explaining syllables and
phonotactics in Southern Min varieties.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation


Written In: English  (eng)

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