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Author Pelkey, Jamin R., 1974-

Title Dialectology as dialectic : interpreting Phula variation / by Jamin R. Pelkey
Published Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 498 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 229
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 229.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of maps; List of tables; List of figures; General abbreviations; Data source abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Synchronic Phula in diachronic perspective; 2. Research background: Field methods, theory, and dialectology; 3. Synchronic language definitions: Identity, intelligibility, contact; 4. Ethnolinguistic vitality: Contact, endangerment and shift; 5. Phula phonologies: Five representative sketches; 6. The language clades of Phula Proper: Establishing historical subgroupings
7. Phula and Southeastern Ngwi: Sani, Axi, Azhe, Azha, Nisu, and Phula Proper8. Conclusion: Diachronic Phula in synchronic perspective; Appendix A: Sociolinguistic questionnaires; Appendix B: Lexical elicitation datasheet sample; Appendix C: Similarity and distance matrices; Appendix D: Sample RTT translations; Notes; References; Index
Summary Undertaking a broadscale experiment in theory and praxis, this book demonstrates grounds for insisting on a more integrational approach to dialectology while simultaneously demonstrating grounds for defining the hidden Phula languages of the Sino-Vietnam borderlands. The modern languages and their ancestral lineage are defined dialectically, through dynamic syntheses of correlative perspectives
Notes Revision of author's (doctoral) thesis--LaTrobe University, Australia, 2008
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Yi language -- Dialectology
Yi language -- Phonology
Yi (Chinese people) -- Languages
Yi (Chinese people) -- Ethnic identity
Anthropological linguistics -- China -- Yunnan Sheng
Anthropological linguistics -- Vietnam
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
Anthropological linguistics
China -- Yunnan Sheng
Vietnam
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110245851
311024585X