Yang Xiong's "Local Words" and Research on Dialect Geography

Author: Li Shuhao
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This is a relatively comprehensive work on the study of Yang Xiong's Fangyan. The author approaches the research from the perspective of dialect geography, examining the various place names and the parallel listing of dialectal place names in Fangyan. By combining historical, cultural, and other relevant data, the author undertakes the task of dividing the Chinese dialects of the Han Dynasty into regions, further sub-dividing these dialects, and tracing the origins of each dialect.