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- ISBN 9780367190996
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Oct 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Nantong Chinese is an in-depth account of an interesting and endangered Sinitic language spoken in Nantong, China, in an area in the Northern Yangtze River Delta about 800 square kilometers in size and 105 kilometers northwest of the city of Shanghai.
The Chinese language consists of several hundred local varieties known as Sinitic languages or Chinese dialects, each representing a unique linguistic system. This book offers a comprehensive and systematic insight into one such system that is even more complex and more interesting than standard Mandarin. The unique vocalization and other linguistic features of Nantong Chinese make it unintelligible to most Chinese people. All the important linguistic aspects of Nantong Chinese are covered, including its phonetic, lexical, morphological and syntactic subsystems.
Nantong Chinese will be of interest to professionals and students in linguistics worldwide.
Benjamin Ao earned his doctoral degree in theoretical linguistics in 1993 from the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University. Since then, he has been mostly working as a computational linguist in the information industry. Currently, he is an unaffiliated independent scholar living in Los Angeles, California.
