Symposium on "The History of Spoken Chinese"

March 12-15, 2000. Portland, Oregon

The Yuen Ren Society announces a symposium on "The History of Spoken Chinese" to be held in conjunction with the 210th meeting of the American Oriental Society, in Portland, Oregon, March 12-15, 2000. Lectures will be presented with the general Sinological listener in mind.

Topics will include:
--How is the history of spoken Chinese different from the history of written Chinese?
--The standard languages and prestige dialects of the past
--Proto-dialects and dialect metasystems, and their relationship to real regional languages     of the past
--Etymology of dialect words
--Future prospects in Chinese historical dialectology

More traditional topics in Chinese dialectology are also welcome.

The final deadline for submissions is 1 December, 1999.

For more information contact:

David Prager Branner
Yuen Ren Society
Mucha P.O. Box 1-666
Taipei 116, TAIWAN
yuen.ren.society@bigfoot.com

or

Richard VanNess Simmons
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Rutgers University
43 College Ave, Scott Hall, Rm 330
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1164 USA
rsimmon@rci.rutgers.edu

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