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When the West meets the East: early Western accounts of the languages of the Sinosphere and their impact on the history of Chinese linguistics

edited by Barbara Meisterernst
Resource Type:
E-Book
Publication:
Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023
Related Series:
Asien- und Afrika-Studien der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Bd. 59
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Barbara Meisterernst
  • Part One: Taiwanese linguistics
  • Taiwanese Southern Min /Hokkien manuscripts and Missionary linguistics
  • Chapter 1: In Search for the Dialectal Variants of Hokkien Based on the Early Bilingual Hokkien-Spanish Dictionary
  • Chinfa Lien
  • Chapter 2: Language contact, wishful thinking or bad fieldwork?How to make sense of consistent language documentation in missionary sources
  • Henning Klöter
  • Austronesian languages in Taiwan
  • Chapter 3: West meets East. The influence of Dutch clergymen in 17th century Taiwan
  • Alexander Adelaar
  • Chapter 4: The 18th century Siraya
  • songs from "A Tour of Duty on the Raft in the Taiwan Sea"
  • Izumi Ochiai and Chao-Kai Shih
  • Part Two: Chinese linguistic traditions
  • Chapter 5: Bazin, Edkins and Bi Huazhen's Yǎnxù cǎotáng bǐjì (Notes on the abundant heritage of the thatched cottage)
  • Alain Peyraube and Lin Xiao
  • Part Three: Early Western Accounts of the Chinese language and Chinese linguistics
  • Chapter 6: Cultural Interaction Studies and Linguistic Research
  • Keiichi Uchida
  • Chapter 7: Transposing Linguistic Categories and Terminology: Interactions between Western and Chinese Linguistic Traditions
  • Mariarosaria Gianninoto
  • Chapter 8: Georg von der Gabelentz and Chinese and East Asian Linguistics
  • Barbara Meisterernst
  • Part Four: Early West-East contacts on the Silk Road and their impact on linguistic studies
  • Chapter 9: Chinese in Sogdian script and Sogdian in Chinese characters
  • Yutaka Yoshida
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Contributors:
Meisterernst, Barbara , editor
Languages:
Chinese
Language Notes:
Item content: Chinese
Other Related Resources:
Print version: When the West meets the East [by Meisterernst, B.] (Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag,c2023 — ISBN 9783447120654)
Related Series:
Asien- und Afrika-Studien der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Bd. 59
Subjects:
Chinese language — East Asia
China — Languages
Languages in contact — China
General Notes:
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 18, 2023).
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Call Numbers:
PL1060.E18 W44 2023eb
ISBNs:
9783447394314 (electronic book)
3447394315 (electronic book)
OCLC Numbers:
1397575310
Other Control Numbers:
EBC7288297 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp20495521