Chinese linguistics and typology: The state of the art
@inproceedings{Chappell2007ChineseLA, title={Chinese linguistics and typology: The state of the art}, author={Hilary Chappell and Liang Ming and Alain Peyraube}, year={2007} }
Abstract 1. Introduction China possesses rich linguistic resources which remain relatively untapped: the ten main Sinitic languages or dialect groups account for roughly 93% of the population (Mandarin, Jin, Xiang, Gan, Hui, Wu, Min, Kejia, Yue, and Pinghua); the remaining 7% comprise the many different “minority” languages in long term contact with Sinitic such as Tibeto-Burman, Mongolian, Hmong, and Tai. In an almost unprecedented state of affairs, written records for Chinese extend without a…
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