Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology

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Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology is written by David Prager Branner and published by Walter de Gruyter. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110802848 (ISBN 10) and 9783110802849 (ISBN 13).

This book discusses the methodology of systematic Chinese Dialect classification, with particular attention to the conservative Miin and Hakka groups spoken in southern China. The primary linguistic methodology employed is the historical-comparative method, and the dialects chosen as examples of classification are those spoken in and around the township of Wann'an in western Fukien's Longyan country. The book features extensive comparative tables of dialect forms, and a two-hundred page appendix outlining the diasystem of the four principal Wann'an dialects.