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Southern Min - Comparative Phonology and Subgrouping (Hardcover)
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Southern Min - Comparative Phonology and Subgrouping (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in East Asian Linguistics
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Southern Min refers to a group of Chinese dialects spoken mainly in
Southeast China and Taiwan. This group occupies a special position
in the study of Chinese dialects, not only because of its large
population of speakers (around 48 million) but also because of its
preservation of various archaic linguistic features long lost in
other dialects. In this book, B.C. Kwok applies the comparative
method on new fieldwork data to reconstruct the common sound system
of 'Proto-Southern Min', from which all modern Southern Min
varieties emerged. The syllable initials, finals and tonal
categories of Proto-Southern Min are illustrated by more than 500
examples. In addition, this book offers an alternative view on the
subgrouping of 12 Southern Min varieties. It proposes that the
Quanzhou dialect and the Zhangzhou dialect form the two main
branches of the dialect group. This book should be of great
interest to advanced students and scholars in the fields of
historical linguistics and Chinese dialectology.
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