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Comptes rendus Hilary CHAPPELL (ed.) 200l. Sinitic grammar. Synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19829977-X. The book under review is a collection of studies on Sinitic languages, i.e. languages belonging to the Chinese family. As the title suggests, the studies are of both synchronie and diachronic nature, often in fact combining the two perspectives. The languages dealt with cover virtually aB major 'dialect' groups of 'Chinese' as weIl as tapping into fesser known groups such as Jin and Hui. The volume consists of an introductory part of general nature and four specific parts, each of which presents the reader with three different case studies. It would be impossible to give an in-depth review of what are in fact thirteen essentiaBy different studies of different, though related, languages. For this reason I will here try to give a homogeneous review of the volume as a contribution to the understanding of Sinitic languages, as weB as of its relevance for generallinguistic theory. In the introductory Part I the editor gives a clear history of Chinese dialects that will be useful for readers not too familiar with Sinitic varieties. It is in Part 11 that we find the innovative
Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale / Oriental Languages and Linguistics – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2002
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