General
introduction
Genetic
Relationship: Chinese as a Sino-Tibetan language
“Geographical
Distribution of Dialects”
A Dialect
Map with Chinese Labels
A
Dialect Map with English Labels
How
Chinese Sounds
Transliteration
of Foreign Words
Word
structure
Monosyllabicity
or Disyllabicity?
Affixation,
Reduplication and Tone changes
Sentence
structure
Some
Unusual Grammatical Patterns
Chinese
writing: facts and myths
The
Glory and Headache of Chinese Characters
The “Writing
as Language’ Myth
The
Pictographic/Ideographic Myth
The Pictographic/Ideographic
Myth (PowerPoint Presentation)
The Rebus
Principle and Phonetically-Based Characters
Dialect
Characters and Dialect Use of Standard Characters
Oracle Bone
and Bronze Inscriptions and Shuowenjiezi
Dictionary,
Typewriter and Telegraphy
Conversion
between Bopomofo and Pinyin
Four
Romanization Systems Compared
Variation
in time and place
Dialect
Pronunciation Differences
Dialect
Vocabulary Differences
Classical
Chinese Vocabulary and Grammar
The
Evolution of Tones in Modern Chinese dialects
Comparative
reconstruction with dialect and loan word evidence
Evidence from
Fanqie spelling and rhyme books
Evidence
from structure and use of characters
Tools
of the trade: summary of historical reconstruction
