Zhongwei Shen

A Phonological History of Chinese

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive account of the phonological history of Chinese, exploring the development of its standard phonological systems over the past 2500 years. It will be a key reference work for historical linguists and phonologists in general, as well as being of particular interest to students and scholars of Chinese/Asian languages and their history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316501658
• ISBN-10: 1316501655
• Artikelnr.: 70527789

Autorenporträt

Zhongwei Shen is a Full Professor of Chinese Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has served as a co-editor of the Journal of Chinese Linguistics, and the co-editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Keys to Traditional Phonology: 1. An introduction to Chinese historical phonology; Part II. Old Chinese: 2. Old Chinese; Part III. Middle Chinese: 3. Middle Chinese: the Tang and Song Dynasties; 4. Middle Chinese: the Tang and Song Dynasties; Part IV. The Beginnings of Mandarin: 5. Chinese of the Liao, Jun, and Xixia Dynasties; Part V. A New Standard: 6. Old Mandarin: the Méngg
Zìyùn
; 7. Old Mandarin: the Zh
ngyuán Y
nyùn
; 8. Old Mandarin: the Persian transcriptions; Part VI. Towards Modern Mandarin: 9. The Mandarin of the Ming Dynasty; 10. The Mandarin of the Qing Dynasty and the modern era.