Nantong Chinese

Nantong Chinese

Ao, Benjamin

Taylor & Francis Ltd

08/2022

220

Mole

Inglês

9780367557799

15 a 20 dias

400

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Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledements

General Information

1. Geological History

2. Administrative History

3. Demographic History

4. Dialects in Greater Nantong

5. Usage and Peculiarities

6. Vitality and Endangerment

7. Previous Research

The Sound System

1. The Syllable

2. The Consonants

3. The Vowels

4. The Suprasegmentals

5. Phonotactics and Distribution

6. Phones and Phonemes

Sounds That Change

1. Segmental Change

2. Tone Sandhi

3. Prosodic Hierarchy

Journey from the Past

1. The Middle Chinese Sound System

2. Phonetic Correspondence

3. Seeking Patterns from Chaos

4. Regular Sound Changes

5. Irregular Sound Changes

6. Reading and Colloquial Pronunciation

Place in the Family

1. Subgrouping of Chinese Dialects

2. Nantong Chinese Is No Mandarin

3. The Tong-Tai-Hui Dialect Group

4. The Tongzhou Sprachbund

The Writing System

1. Sample Texts

2. The Challenges

3. The Quest for Authenticity

4. A Phonetic Script

The Vocabulary

1. Previous Studies

2. Language Contact and Loan Words

3. Sources of Dialectal Words

Words and Word Classes

1. Parts of Speech

2. Nouns and Pronouns

3. Number, Case and Class

4. Adjectives, Numerals and Classifiers

5. Verbs

6. Tense, Mood, Voice and Aspect

7. Function Words

Phrases and Sentences

1. Types of Phrases

2. Transformation

3. Sentence Definition

4. Speech Act Markers

5. Basic Sentence Types

6. Special Constructs

7. Negative Sentences

8. Interrogative Sentences

9. Focus and Focalization

A Literary Sampler

1. A Lullaby

2. Children's Rhymes

3. Love Songs

4. Narrative Poems

5. Fairy tales

6. A Glossary

Index
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Tone Sandhi;Nantong Sinitic language;Glottal Vowel;Mandarin dialect;Fricative Vowels;Chinese dialects;Dialectal Words;unique linguistic system;Yangtze River;Sentence Final Particles;Glottal Stop;Neighboring Dialects;Toneless Syllable;Lexical Tone;Mark 1;Shanghai Chinese;Prosodic Hierarchy;Mandarin Dialects;Mandarin;Toned Syllable;Coda Consonant;Disyllabic Words;Wu Dialects;Metrical Foot;Nasal Vowels;Gan Dialect;Trisyllabic Word;Nantong City;Low Level Tone