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Miandianyu Fangyan Yanjiu [Burmese Dialect Research] by Wang Danian and Cai Xiangyang (review)

Miandianyu Fangyan Yanjiu [Burmese Dialect Research] by Wang Danian and Cai Xiangyang (review) Review Essay Miandianyu Fangyan Yanjiu [Burmese Dialect Research]. WANG DANIAN AND CAI XIANGYANG. [Beijing]: Beijing University Press, 2018. Pp. 7 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 543. RMB 108 (paper). Reviewed by David Bradley, La Trobe University This wonderful volume represents the culmination of many years of research on the Burmese language and its dialects by the retired Professor of Burmese at Peking University Wang Danian. It includes a massive quantity of phonological and lexical data as well as substantial morphosyntactic examples from nine spoken varieties. The varieties included are the Yangon standard, southeastern Tavoyan, far southeastern Beik (Merguese), western Rakhine (Arakanese) and Yaw, northeastern Intha, Taungyo, and Danu, and northern Hpun. The volume provides comprehensive new and unique data on Danu and Beik, by far the most extensive data ever collected on Yaw and Taungyo, and a massive and extremely valuable supplement to existing sources on Rakhine, Tavoyan, Intha, and Hpun. It draws on recent data from U Tun Aung Kyaw for Hpun; otherwise, all is new original data collected by Prof. Wang over many years. The transcription is consistent and excellent throughout. As has been observed but never documented before, the speech of Beik http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Linguistics University of Nebraska Press

Miandianyu Fangyan Yanjiu [Burmese Dialect Research] by Wang Danian and Cai Xiangyang (review)

Bradley, David
Anthropological Linguistics , Volume 61 (1) – Apr 2, 2020
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Review Essay Miandianyu Fangyan Yanjiu [Burmese Dialect Research]. WANG DANIAN AND CAI XIANGYANG. [Beijing]: Beijing University Press, 2018. Pp. 7 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 543. RMB 108 (paper). Reviewed by David Bradley, La Trobe University This wonderful volume represents the culmination of many years of research on the Burmese language and its dialects by the retired Professor of Burmese at Peking University Wang Danian. It includes a massive quantity of phonological and lexical data as well as substantial morphosyntactic examples from nine spoken varieties. The varieties included are the Yangon standard, southeastern Tavoyan, far southeastern Beik (Merguese), western Rakhine (Arakanese) and Yaw, northeastern Intha, Taungyo, and Danu, and northern Hpun. The volume provides comprehensive new and unique data on Danu and Beik, by far the most extensive data ever collected on Yaw and Taungyo, and a massive and extremely valuable supplement to existing sources on Rakhine, Tavoyan, Intha, and Hpun. It draws on recent data from U Tun Aung Kyaw for Hpun; otherwise, all is new original data collected by Prof. Wang over many years. The transcription is consistent and excellent throughout. As has been observed but never documented before, the speech of Beik

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