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Conference Paper: The Affiliation of Yongnan Zhuang in Diachronic Perspectives
Title | The Affiliation of Yongnan Zhuang in Diachronic Perspectives |
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Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. |
Citation | The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) Annual Research Forum 2018, Hong Kong, 1 December 2018 How to Cite? 2018 年香港語言學學會學術年會, 香港, 2018年12月1日 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Yongnan Zhuang (YN), a Tai language group registered in the list of Central Tai (CT), frequently share more certain phonological/lexical innovations with Northern Tai (NT) languages, and this has led its affiliation of CT or NT to be debatable. Based on its robust contrastive aspirated initial stops, which lack in NT but are well-developed in CT languages, Chinese linguists have conventionally grouped it as a sub-group of Southern Zhuang of CT (Zhang et al. 1999). Rejecting to the conventional grouping, this paper suggests that YN should be first grouped with NT languages to form a NT-YN sub-branch of which the CT-Southwestern Tai (SWT) sub-branch is a sister, based on evidence from the diachronic hierarchies of linguistic innovations involved in tonal behaviors, initial and vocalic behaviors, as well as exclusive lexical items. Agreeing with Liang and Zhang (1996) and Pittayaporn (2009), initial aspiration in CT-SWT languages is suggested to be of post-proto-Tai innovation. That languages from YN have developed robust initial aspiration is nothing more than an areal feature shared with the languages from the CT-SWT sub-branch due to the later contact. As an inspiration, it is crucial for language classification to subgroup languages from the same family by using the criterion of shared innovation on diachronic hierarchies and orders. Reference Liang, Min & Zhang Junru. 1996. 侗台语族概论. [An introduction to the Kam-Tai Languages]. Beijing: China Social Sciences Publishing House.] Pittayawat Pittayaporn. 2009. The phonology of Proto-Tai. New York: Cornell University dissertation. Zhang, Junru, Liang Min, Ouyang Jueya, Zheng Yiqing, Li Xulian & Xie Jianyou. 1999. 壮语方言研究. [Zhuang Dialect Research]. (Chinese minority language dialect research series.) Chengdu: Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/278929 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Liao, H | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-21T02:16:32Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-21T02:16:32Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) Annual Research Forum 2018, Hong Kong, 1 December 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | 2018 年香港語言學學會學術年會, 香港, 2018年12月1日 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/278929 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Yongnan Zhuang (YN), a Tai language group registered in the list of Central Tai (CT), frequently share more certain phonological/lexical innovations with Northern Tai (NT) languages, and this has led its affiliation of CT or NT to be debatable. Based on its robust contrastive aspirated initial stops, which lack in NT but are well-developed in CT languages, Chinese linguists have conventionally grouped it as a sub-group of Southern Zhuang of CT (Zhang et al. 1999). Rejecting to the conventional grouping, this paper suggests that YN should be first grouped with NT languages to form a NT-YN sub-branch of which the CT-Southwestern Tai (SWT) sub-branch is a sister, based on evidence from the diachronic hierarchies of linguistic innovations involved in tonal behaviors, initial and vocalic behaviors, as well as exclusive lexical items. Agreeing with Liang and Zhang (1996) and Pittayaporn (2009), initial aspiration in CT-SWT languages is suggested to be of post-proto-Tai innovation. That languages from YN have developed robust initial aspiration is nothing more than an areal feature shared with the languages from the CT-SWT sub-branch due to the later contact. As an inspiration, it is crucial for language classification to subgroup languages from the same family by using the criterion of shared innovation on diachronic hierarchies and orders. Reference Liang, Min & Zhang Junru. 1996. 侗台语族概论. [An introduction to the Kam-Tai Languages]. Beijing: China Social Sciences Publishing House.] Pittayawat Pittayaporn. 2009. The phonology of Proto-Tai. New York: Cornell University dissertation. Zhang, Junru, Liang Min, Ouyang Jueya, Zheng Yiqing, Li Xulian & Xie Jianyou. 1999. 壮语方言研究. [Zhuang Dialect Research]. (Chinese minority language dialect research series.) Chengdu: Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) Annual Research Forum | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | 2018 年香港語言學學會學術年會 | - |
dc.title | The Affiliation of Yongnan Zhuang in Diachronic Perspectives | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 307811 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Hong Kong | - |