A Handbook Of Sinitic Languages Dialects And Non Standard Mandarin
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A Handbook of Sinitic Languages, Dialects, and Non-Standard Mandarin
"This book is an invaluable and essential guide to speech forms such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, and Shanghainese, which are very distinct from one another. It also outlines commonly encountered varieties of nonstandard Mandarin, both those varieties that are spoken as people's native language and those that are spoken by those who have learned Mandarin as a second language but are influenced by their native language when speaking Mandarin. In addition, this book provides background information about the most important Sinitic languages and dialects, including their geographical distribution and position in the societies where they are spoken. It describes and compares the major Sinitic language families to reveal both their similarities and their considerable structural diversity. It also delineates several common varieties of non-standard Mandarin that have been influenced by the non-Mandarin Sinitic languages, presenting the results of research in Chinese dialectology in a way that will be interesting and useful for both beginning students of Chinese linguistics and scholars of the Chinese language, while also providing knowledge about language contact and linguistic change in Sinitic language-speaking societies"--
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation and even developing new syntactic structures. It also accompanies traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology with empirical evidence from psychology and neurocognitive sciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Chinese languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan.
The Handbook of Language Contact
The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field – ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology – combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages. An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues in the field of language contact: the study of how language changes when speakers of distinct speech varieties interact Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars Examines language contact in societies which have significant immigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world Accessibly structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contact studies for research into language change; and language contact in the context of work on language and society Explores a broad range of topics, making it an excellent resource for both faculty and students across a variety of fields within linguistics