The Tai Dialect of Lungming
Glossary, Texts, and Translations
Will be published approx. on 1. January 1991
Book
Hardback
1232 pages
978-0-89148-067-9 (ISBN)
Description
Another dialect exhaustively studied by William J. Gedney is Lungming, a Tai dialect spoken in and around the town of Lungming, in Kwangsi, China. In addition to compiling the massive glossary published in this volume, Gedney elicited several thousand Lungming sentences. Also reproduced and translated, these serve to illustrate syntactic patterns and vocabulary items. Combined in The Tai Dialect of Lungming, these data represent one of the most complete examinations yet undertaken of a dialect belonging to the Central Branch of the Tai language family. As with Gedney's The Yay Language, these materials will be of particular value to linguists, comparativists, folklorists, and anthropologists.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ann Arbor, MI
United States
Publishing group
The University of Michigan Press
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
map
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-89148-067-9 (9780891480679)
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William J. Gedney was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. Thomas John Hudak is Professor Emeritus of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He focuses on the linguistics and literature of Southea