Preface Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Regional Dialect and Social Dialect 1.2 Dialects, Common Language, and Written Language 1.3 Significance of Studying Chinese Dialectology Chapter 2 Dialect Investigation, transcription and description 2.1 Indirect Investigation and Direct Investigation 2.2 Informant and Field Researcher 2.3 Phonetic Transcription and Description of Dialects 2.4 Lexical and Grammatical Investigation 2.

5 Methodological Issues in Chinese Dialect Investigation Chapter 3 Dialect Geography 3.1 Dialect Classification 3.2 Non-linguistic Factors in Dialect Classification 3.3 Dialect Islands Appendix: Bibliography of Studies on Chinese Dialect Islands 3.4 Features of Dialect Geographical Evolution 3.5 Dialect Maps Chapter 4 History of Dialects 4.1 Materials Recording Ancient Dialects 4.2 Origin and Development of Chinese Dialects 4.

3 Phonetic Reconstruction of Ancient Dialects 4.4 Reconstructing the Classification of Hypothetical Ancient Dialects 4.5 Historical Layers in Dialects Chapter 5 Dialect Change and Variation 5.1 Observations on Dialect Change 5.2 Variation in Speech Flow 5.3 Reasons for Dialect Variation 5.4 Reasons for and Manners of Historical Change in Dialects 5.5 Historical Sound Change and Its Exceptions Chapter 6 Dialect Contact 6.

1 Dialect Borrowing 6.2 Dialect Atrophy and Language Shift in Dialects 6.3 Dialect Hybridization 6.4 Dialect Bilingualism and Polyglotism Chapter 7 Dialect Comparison 7.1 Synchronic Comparison 7.2 Diachronic Comparison 7.3 Modern Dialect Comparison and the Historical Study of Dialects Chapter 8 Sociolinguistic Study of Dialects 8.1 Investigation and Comparison of Differences based on Age Difference 8.

2 Diglossia 8.3 Social Dialects 8.4 Dialect Place Name Chapter 9 Dialect Characters 9.1 Etymologically Valid Characters for Dialect Words and Modern Written Forms Chosen merely to Represent the Correct Meanings of Etymologically Obscure Words 9.2 Miscellaneous Dialect Characters 9.3 Alphabetic Writing of Dialects Chapter 10 History of Dialectology 10.1 Brief Introduction to Western Dialectology 10.2 The Period of Traditional Dialectology 10.

3 Dialect Transcription and Study by Western Missionaries 10.4 Dialect Transcription and Study by Ethnologists 10.5 The Period of Descriptive Dialectology Appendix 1 English-Chinese Dialectological Terms Appendix 2 Bibliography of Dialect Translations of the New and Old Testaments (Pre-1949).