Chinese Dialect Classification : a comparative approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu.

This volume is an investigation and classification of dialects along the Wu and Jiang-Hwai Mandarin border in China's eastern Yangtze Valley. It is the first monograph-length study to critically question the traditional single criterion of initial voicing for the classification of Wu dialects a...

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Main Author: Simmons, Richard VanNess
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1999.
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 188.
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