Chinese Dialect Classification

• Acknowledgments | p. v
• Introduction | p. ix
• Map | p. xviii
• Chapter 1: The Problem of Harngjou | p. 1
• 0. Brief background
• 1. The Mandarin nature of Harngjou phonology
• 2. The Mandarin nature of Harngjou lexicon
• 3. Harngjou's Wu-like tendencies
• Chapter 2: Identifying Wu Dialects | p. 28
• 0. The goal
• 1. Some previous definitions of Wu dialect affiliation
• 2. Classifying Wu dialects by reference to a common phonology
• 3. The problems with Chiehyunn based classification
• Chapter 3: Common Northern Wu | p. 50
• 0. Preliminaries
• 1. Common initial categories
• 2. Common tone categories
• 3. Common final categories
• 4. Common distinctions
• 5. Wu characteristics and the common system
• 6. A refurbished set of diagnostic criteria
• 7. A Mandarin-Wu taxonomic key for Jiangsu and Jehjiang
• Chapter 4: Jintarn: The City and its Dialects | p. 83
• 0. Brief background
• 1. The history of Jintarn
• 2. The current dialect situation: Old and New Jintarn
• 3. My Old Jintarn informant
• 4. Old Jintarn phonology
• Chapter 5: Old Jintarn and Danyang: Their Common System and Correlation with Common Northern Wu (CNW) | p. 102
• 0. Preliminaries
• 1. Comparison of their initials
• 2. Comparison of Old Jintarn and Danyang initials to CNW
• 3. Comparison of their finals
• 4. Comparison of Old Jintarn and Danyang finals to CNW
• 5. Danyang and Jintarn tone categories compared
• 6. Comparison of Old Jintarn and Danyang tones to CNW
• 7. Implications of the Jintarn/Danyang reflection of CNW
• Chapter 6: A Demonstration of the Taxonomic Procedure | p. 135
• 0. Introduction
• 1. Check for Mandarin affiliation
• 2. Confirm and characterize Wu affiliation
• 3. Verify affiliation with the Tayhwu group
• 4. Review and evaluation of the results
• Chapter 7: Concluding Observations | p. 170
• 0. Outline of the findings
• 1. Voiced obstruents as a taxonomically insignificant feature
• 2. Comparative characterization in terms of a common system
• 3. A taxonomy for CNW where it borders Mandarin
• 4. The Old Jintarn-Danyang subset of Common Northern Wu
• 5. Looking again at Harngjou and beyond
• Appendix 1: Informants | p. 190
• Appendix 2: Old Jintarn Syllabary | p. 191
• Appendix 3: Old Jintarn Lexicon | p. 195
• Appendix 4: English to Old Jintarn Glossary | p. 265
• Index | p. 310

Cited by six other publications

Paul, Jing, Samantha N. Emerson & Şeyda Özçalışkan

2022. Does dialect matter in the expression of motion? Ways of encoding manner and path in Babao and standard Mandarin. Lingua 270 ► pp. 103215 ff.

Sheng, Yimin

2022. 宋室南渡與臨安官話對吳語的影響 – 若干詞彙、語法的例證 (Influence of the southern migration of the Song Dynasty on Wu dialects via Lin’an Guanhua: Lexical and syntactic evidence). Language and Linguistics. 語言暨語言學 ► pp. 439 ff.

Cabras, Giulia

2020. Northwest Mandarin, Standard Chinese, and Tibetan elements in Wutun lexicon. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7:1 ► pp. 113 ff.

Simmons, Richard VanNess

2020. Chinese urban language in historical perspective. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 30:1-2 ► pp. 139 ff.

Nikolaev, Dmitry & Eitan Grossman

2018. Areal sound change and the distributional typology of affricate richness in Eurasia. Studies in Language 42:3 ► pp. 562 ff.

Rose, Philip

2016. Review of Jingwei (): A Sociophonetic Study on Tonal Variation of the Wúxī and Shànghăi Dialects. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:1 ► pp. 161 ff.

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 18 july 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Main BIC Subject

Main BISAC Subject