Dialectology as dialectic : interpreting Phula variation / by Jamin R. Pelkey.

Undertaking a broadscale experiment in theory and praxis, this book demonstrates grounds for insisting on a more integrational approach to dialectology while simultaneously demonstrating grounds for defining the hidden Phula languages of the Sino-Vietnam borderlands. The modern languages and their a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Pelkey, Jamin R., 1974-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2011.
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 229.
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Summary:Undertaking a broadscale experiment in theory and praxis, this book demonstrates grounds for insisting on a more integrational approach to dialectology while simultaneously demonstrating grounds for defining the hidden Phula languages of the Sino-Vietnam borderlands. The modern languages and their ancestral lineage are defined dialectically, through dynamic syntheses of correlative perspectives.
Item Description:Revision of author's (doctoral) thesis--LaTrobe University, Australia, 2008.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxiv, 498 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783110245851
311024585X
Language:In English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Source of description: Print version record.