University of Melbourne, 2021. — 411 p. Bai is the language spoken by the Bai people located in Yunnan, China and surrounding provinces. The southern dialect, Southern Bai, is spoken by approximately 500,000 people in and around the Dali Bai Autonomous prefecture. Through a descriptive linguistics framework this study provides detailed description and analysis of the phonetic,...
A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Linguistics) in The University of Michigan, 2011. — xii, 383 p. This dissertation explores Bái language use in Jiànchuān County, China. On the basis of interviews with 42 language users, transcripts of spontaneous conversation and elicited narratives, excerpts from Bái texts...
A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Linguistics). — Michigan: The University of Michigan, 2017. — xx, 227 p. This dissertation presents an account of synchronic phonological contrast for the Bai language. Bai is a Sino-Tibetan language primarily spoken in Yunnan Province in Southwest China. There is a sizable...
Dissertation submitted to Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics for the degree PHD. — Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong, 2004. — xviii, 264 p. 汪鋒. 語言接觸與語言比較---以白語為例 . This study proposes the Distillation Method for the comparative studies on languages in contact. This method is applied to the Bai language, which comes under heavy contact with Chinese. The...
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