The Father Of Non Han Chinese Linguistics Li Fang Kuei

Author : Peter Li
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524603732
Total Pages : 191 pages
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Download or read book The Father of Non-Han Chinese Linguistics Li Fang-Kuei written by Peter Li and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is linguistics? What does a linguist do? . . . He studies the way people speak. . . . What! Thats ridiculous? Who does not know how to speak except a deaf-mute? What is there to study? Li Fang-Kuei, one of the foremost Chinese linguists in the world, encountered the skepticism of his prospective mother-in-law in the 1920s when he returned to China and wished to ask her daughters hand in marriage. Li studied general linguistics at the University of Chicago with Edward Sapir. His research in American Indian languages took him into the wilds of northern Canada; his study of non-Han ethnic minority languages in China took him to the borders of Tibet, Thailand and Vietnam. Lis career as a scholar, linguist, and adventurer from his idyllic years of study in America, through the war-torn years in China, and peaceful retirement in Hawaii, is tantalizingly sketched in this chronological biography.

Author : R. E. Asher
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics written by R. E. Asher and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregory Eliyu Guldin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315288087
Total Pages : 329 pages
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Download or read book The Saga of Anthropology in China: From Malinowski to Moscow to Mao written by Gregory Eliyu Guldin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the development of the four fields of anthropology in China. Looking at both the political and social contexts, Greg Guldin demonstrates how political turmoil has shaped China's twentieth century anthropological landscape.

Author : Doris Sze Chun
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
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Download or read book The Agassiz Professorship and the Development of Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, 1872-1985 written by Doris Sze Chun and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Axel Schuessler
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824863623
Total Pages : 449 pages
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Download or read book Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese written by Axel Schuessler and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although long out of date, Bernard Karlgren’s (1957) remains the most convenient work for looking up Middle Chinese (ca. A.D. 600) and Old Chinese (before 200 B.C.) reconstructions of all graphs that occur in literature from the beginning of writing (ca. 1250 B.C.) down to the third century B.C. In the present volume, Axel Schuessler provides a more current reconstruction of Old Chinese, limiting it, as far as possible, to those post-Karlgrenian phonological features of Old Chinese that enjoy some consensus among today’s investigators. At the same time, the updating of the material disregards more speculative theories and proposals. Schuessler refers to these minimal forms as "Minimal Old Chinese" (OCM). He bases OCM on Baxter’s 1992 reconstructions but with some changes, mostly notational. In keeping with its minimal aspect, the OCM forms are kept as simple as possible and transcribed in an equally simple notation. Some issues in Old Chinese phonology still await clarification; hence interpolations and proposals of limited currency appear in this update. Karlgren’s Middle Chinese reconstructions, as emended by Li Fang-kuei, are widely cited as points of reference for historical forms of Chinese as well as dialects. This emended Middle Chinese is also supplied by Schuessler. Another important addition to Karlgren’s work is an intermediate layer midway between the Old and Middle Chinese periods known as "Later Han Chinese" (ca. second century A.D.) The additional layer makes this volume a useful resource for those working on Han sources, especially poetry. This book is intended as a "companion" to the original Grammata Serica Recensa and therefore does not repeat other information provided there. Matters such as English glosses and references to the earliest occurrence of a graph can be looked up in Grammata Serica Recensa itself or in other relevant dictionaries. The great accomplishment of this companion volume is to update an essential reference and thereby fulfill the need for an accessible and user-friendly source for citing the various historically reconstructed stages of Chinese.

Author : Walter Shearer
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ISBN 13 : 9780889460768
Total Pages : 303 pages
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Download or read book Speakers of the Non-Han Languages and Dialects of China written by Walter Shearer and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Linguistics East and West written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses his childhood and education in China, his university and related education in the United States and Europe, his research in China, involvement with the Chung-kuo kʻo hsüeh yüan (Academia Sinica), and teaching assignments in the United States. It also includes his recollections of many linguists in China and the West, and a discussion of guiding principles and methodology for historical comparative linguistics. Also included are two essays by Prof. Li's daughter, Lindy Li Mark, concerning her parents' trips to China in 1978 and 1983.

Author : Zhongwei Shen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108774199
Total Pages : 441 pages
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Download or read book A Phonological History of Chinese written by Zhongwei Shen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Fanggui Li
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book A Handbook of Comparative Tai written by Fanggui Li and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Justus Doolittle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
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Download or read book A Vocabulary and Hand-book of the Chinese Language, Romanized in the Mandarin Dialect written by Justus Doolittle and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: