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TACKLING DIVERSITY IN SINITIC LANGUAGES

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Pre-publication & pre-review version of 'Introduction: Ways of tackling diversity in Sinitic languages.' In: H.M. Chappell(ed.) Diversity in Sinitic languages, OUP, 2015, pp. 3-12) This volume represents one of the first major outcomes of the ERC SINOTYPE project (2009-2013) which brought together seven researchers from China, France and Australia to carry out empirically-based typological studies on the vast, yet little explored domain of Sinitic languages. 1 Challenging the tradition in Chinese linguistics, the SINOTYPE project has consistently treated Chinese dialects as a separate, though unquestionably affiliated, group of languages belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family and having the technical name of 'Sinitic'. They are generally considered to be a first-order, sister branch to the Tibeto-Burman languages, the latter lying to the west and southwest of the core area in China where Sinitic languages are found. Details of their classification and a linguistic map are presented in Chapter 2 for the ten recognized second-order branches of Sinitic: Mandarin
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Hilary Chappell. TACKLING DIVERSITY IN SINITIC LANGUAGES. Diversity in Sinitic languages., pp.3-12, 2015, 978-0198723790. ⟨hal-03929311⟩
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