LINGUIST List 9.172

Thu Feb 5 1998

Confs: Yuen Ren Society Conference

Editor for this issue: Martin Jacobsen <martylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Yuen Ren Society, Yuen Ren Society Conference

Annual Conference, Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese
Dialect Fieldwork

7 February, 1998

317 Thomson Hall, University of Washington, Seattle

Admission is free and open to the public.

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		 Program
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Panel I 9:00-10:30	Chair: David Prager Branner

 9:00 The Jintarn and Danyang Dialects
 
	Richard VanNess Simmons, Rutgers University

 9:30 Literary vs. Vernacular Pronunciation of Characters
(Wenbaiyidu) in Shanghai

	Sheng-Tai Chang, [No affiliation]

 10:00The Evolution of the Jiang1-yan2 Dialect 

	Jiangmin Zhang and Lina Lu, Pacific University
 
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		10:30 Break
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Panel II 11:00-12:00	Chair: South Coblin

 11:00 Ngai Hua of Luo2-cheng2 County, Guang3-xi1 Province

	Jerold A. Edmondson, University of Texas at Arlington
	Gui Minchao, University of Oklahoma

 11:30 Hakka Revisited

	Jerry Norman, University of Washington

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	 12:00 Lunch Break
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Panel III 2:00-3:30	Chair: Jerry Norman

 2:00 Common Features of the Shan1-xi1 and the Southern Dialects

	Anne Yue-Hashimoto, University of Washington

 2:30 A Brief History of Mandarin

	W. South Coblin, University of Iowa

 3:00 Ji3-nan2, an Endangered Dialect

	Hua Lin, University of Victoria, Canada
	Cao Zhiyun, Beijing Language and Culture University, China
	

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		 3:30 Break
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Panel IV 4:00-5:30	Chair: Richard VanNess Simmons

 4:00 A Glossary of the Nantong Dialect

	Benjamin Ao, [No affiliation]
	
 4:30	Taiwanese Southern Min "Thumb"

	Warren Brewer, Tamkang University, Taiwan

 5:00 On Some Numeral Codes
	David Prager Branner, University of Minnesota