Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology : : The Classification of Miin and Hakka / / David Prager Branner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Branner, David Prager,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 123
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (477 p.)
• Other title: I-XIV --; 1. The ideas of Chinese dialect classification --; 2. Wann’an and the problem of this study --; 3. Wann’an’s affiliation and the cohesiveness of diagnostic features --; 4. The character of Wann’an dialects --; 5. Wann’an evidence about Common Miin --; 6. Conclusion: The place of Miin in the greater history of Chinese --; Appendix A: Introduction to the Kengyunn --; Appendix Β: The Kengyunn --; Appendix C: Index to the Kengyunn --; Notes --; References --; Index of glosses --; Index of subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110802849; 9783110649772; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110802849
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Prager Branner.

This book discusses the methodology of systematic Chinese Dialect classification, with particular attention to the conservative Miin and Hakka groups spoken in southern China. The primary linguistic methodology employed is the historical-comparative method, and the dialects chosen as examples of classification are those spoken in and around the township of Wann'an in western Fukien's Longyan country. The book features extensive comparative tables of dialect forms, and a two-hundred page appendix outlining the diasystem of the four principal Wann'an dialects.