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Tables of Contents for Chinese
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Major chronological divisions of Chinese history
xi
Introduction
The varieties of Chinese
1
5
China's linguistic neighbors
6
2
Typological characteristics of Chinese
8
4
The genetic affiliation of Chinese
12
4
Chinese in contact with other languages
16
7
The historical phonology of Chinese
Periodicization of Chinese
23
1
Sources of Middle Chinese: the Qieyun
24
4
The Song rhyme tables
28
6
The methodology of Middle Chinese reconstruction
34
8
The reconstruction of Old Chinese
42
6
Old Mandarin
48
4
Tonal development
52
6
The Chinese script
The beginnings of Chinese writing
58
5
Codification of the script under the Qin dynasty
63
1
The varieties of ancient script and its nomenclature
64
1
Developments in the Han dynasty
65
4
Post-Han developments in the script
69
1
The number of Chinese characters
70
4
The adaptability of the Chinese script
74
5
Recent developments in the Chinese writing system
79
4
The classical and literary languages
Classical and literary Chinese
83
1
Morphemes and words
84
3
Word classes
87
8
The Classical Chinese sentence
95
2
Some grammatical operations
97
6
Place and time adjuncts
103
1
Nominal and verbal modification
104
1
Nominalization
105
1
Conjoining constructions
106
2
The classical literary language in later ages
108
3
The rise and development of the written vernacular
Sources for the study of the early vernacular
111
1
Nouns, measures and localizers
112
5
Pronominal forms
117
4
Predicatives
121
9
Changes in word order
130
3
The modern standard language I
The formation of the modern standard language
133
2
The problem of nomenclature
135
3
Phonology of the standard language - preliminaries
138
1
The initials
139
2
The finals
141
4
Tones
145
3
Stress and intonation
148
1
Morphophonemics
149
3
The modern standard language II
The study of grammar in China
152
2
The morpheme
154
1
The word
155
2
Word classes
157
2
Expression of grammatical categories
159
7
The Chinese sentence
166
4
Traditional Chinese lexicography
170
2
The rise of bilingual dictionaries
172
4
Modern lexicography in China
176
5
Dialectal variation in North and Central China
Classification of Chinese dialects
181
2
Historical factors in dialect development
183
4
Degree of diversity among Chinese dialects
187
1
Dialect geography
188
1
Dialect boundaries
189
1
The Mandarin dialects
190
7
The Central dialects
197
2
The Wu dialects
199
5
The Gan dialects
204
3
The Xiang dialects
207
3
The dialects of the Southeast
Common features found in the Southern dialects
210
4
The Yue dialects
214
7
The Kejia dialects
221
7
The Min dialects
228
11
Min and Kejia
239
2
Difficulties in classification
241
4
Language and society
Prestige of the different forms of Chinese
245
4
Diglossia, bidialectalism, bilingualism
249
4
Government language policy
253
4
The fate of alphabetic writing in China
257
6
Present and future prospects
263
3
Notes
266
8
References
274
9
Index
283