The Tai Dialect of Lungming: Glossary, Texts, and Translations Volume 39

by William J. Gedney

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891480676
• ISBN13: 9780891480679
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: U of M Center for South East Asian Studi
• Length: 1232 Pages