Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology
The Classification of Miin and Hakka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8079418 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Prager Branner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9783110802849 |
| OpenAlex | W2023983897 |
| Open Library | OL46011469M |
| ISBN | 9783110802849 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
1. The ideas of Chinese dialect classification 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Dialects and the Chinese idea of dialect 1.3. Goals and methods in classification and comparison 1.4. The primacy of data and the cultivation of data 1.5. Reconstruction 1.6. Under-description and the need for correspondence sets 1.7. Rigor in classification - reinventing the wheel 1.8. Bundling of features 1.9. Beentzhyh and meaningful elicitation 1.10. To recapitulate 2. Wann'an and the problem of this study 2.1. Wann'an township 2.2. The meaning of the names and 2.3. The settlement of Wann'an, its geography, and local trades 2.4. Major sites 2.5. Markets and roads 2.6. The problem of this study: Norman's diagnostic rules 2.7. Common Miin initial-types 2.8. The Shawwuu Hypothesis 3. Wann'an's affiliation and the cohesiveness of diagnostic features 3.1. The Hakka test 3.2. Comparative Wann'an tones 3.3. The Miin test 3.4. Is Norman's Hakka criterion an artifact of his sources? 3.5. Evidence from rural Liancherng 3.6. Hakka in general 3.7. Conclusions and prospects for further research on Hakka 4. The character of Wann'an dialects 4.1. Other features of Miin 4.2. The classification of Wann'an within Miin 4.3. Subclassification within Coastal Miin 4.4. Conclusion 5. Wann'an evidence about Common Miin 5.1. A fourth nasal initial correspondence 5.2. Rogue nasalization and evidence of voiceless nasals 5.3. The shaang tone glottal stop in Miin 5.4. Addendum: chiuhsheng lengthening? 6. Conclusion: The place of Miin in the greater history of Chinese 6.1. Introduction 6.2. The question of the history of spoken Chinese 6.3. Chinese linguistic macro-history 6.4. The tonal proto-system of Miin 6.5. A digression on the relative date of tone splitting 6.6. Miin as a relic of Chinese before massive palatalization 6.7. Conclusion and hopes for the future
Character (mathematics · Epistemology · Geography · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Nasalization · Settlement (finance · Vowel · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · china · Chinese language · Chinese language, dialects · Dialects · Fujian Sheng · Hakka dialects · Nurses' Instruction · Pharmacology
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |