A Preliminary Description of the Historical Development of Modern Northern Wú Dialects

現代呉語太湖片發展的初步分析

柯禕藍

指導教授 ： 張光宇

國立清華大學/人文社會學院/語言學研究所/碩士(2014年)

摘要

The current work provides an outline of the development of modern Tàihú dialects of Wú. Wú is a Sinitic language with between 70 and 90 million speakers, spoken in the Yangtze Delta region of East China. Shànghǎi is the largest city in the Wú speaking area. The language is notable for its retention of the tripartite voicing distinction of Middle Chinese which has been lost in all but a few non-Wú dialects of the Sinitic languages, as well as for its complex tonal system unique among the Sinitic languages.
This paper provides an historical reconstruction of the stages of development from an earlier common form of the Tàihú dialects – referred to here as Old Wú – up to the current modern dialects spoken in and around Shànghǎi, Southern Jiāngsū and in Northern Zhèjiāng. It provides an historical account of phonemic inventories of the dialects surveyed, as well as providing an explanation for competing trends of affrication and de-affrication in the region. A step- by-step account is provided for modern realisations of the traditional Qièyùn categories. The reconstructions – to include stages development – have been formulated through the comparative method by analysing data from a wide range of Wú dialects, both modern and historical. This paper aims to add to the literature on the subject of linguistic diversity among the Wú dialects and to facilitate future research in the region.

關鍵字

吳語 ； 歷史語言學 ； 太湖片 ； 蘇州話 ； 上海話 ； 常州話

並列摘要

無資料

並列關鍵字

Wu ； Shanghainese ； Suzhou dialect ； Changzhou dialect ； Historical Linguistics

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