Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 498 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 229 |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 229.
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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 |
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Yi language -- Dialectology
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Yi language -- Phonology
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Yi (Chinese people) -- Languages
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Yi (Chinese people) -- Ethnic identity
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Anthropological linguistics -- China -- Yunnan Sheng
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Anthropological linguistics -- Vietnam
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
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Anthropological linguistics
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China -- Yunnan Sheng
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Vietnam
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9783110245851 |
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311024585X |
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