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Publication details [#30228]

Wang, William S.-Y. 1995. The ancestry of the Chinese language. (Journal of Chinese Linguistic Monograph Series 8). xi + 438 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
language and culture | language change | language contact | language origins
Language as a subject
Chinese

Annotation

This book presents four major hypotheses that compete to account for the genetic affinity of the Chinese language.

Reviewed by

Boltz, William G. 1996. Review of $The ancestry of the Chinese language.