La Géographie Linguistique En Chine

Language Contact and Areal Diffusion in Sinitic Languages

“…In the same study, Grootaers (1943) shows how methods in geographical linguistics can be successfully applied to capturing dialect isoglosses in Northern…”

“…Karlgren's postulation of these two earlier stages of the Chinese language inspired further work by sinologists resulting in revisions and new breakthroughs, and provided indisputable evidence for the genetic relationship of Sinitic languages, though be it mainly on the basis of phonology and the lexicon. iii Nonetheless, the focus on phonetic laws and the use of the neo-grammarian approach with its assumption of homogeneous data in Chinese linguistic reconstruction was early criticized by Grootaers (1943) and Serruys (1943) as the sole means of relating dialects to Old and Middle Chinese. In particular, they both objected to Karlgren's use of character lists for elicitation and dialect dictionaries based on the reading of standard Chinese characters.…”

De Nederlandsche Dialectstudie in 1943*

“…DE GOEDE deelt eenige "karaktermerken" en een woordenlijstje mee van het U trech tsch stadsrlialect ( 15). L. GROO'l'AERS wijst in een populariseerend opstel op het belang dat het dialectonderzoek voor den• heemkundige heeft (16). Tot onzen spijt ,moeten we vermelden• dat we st;dert tT uli l ~42 geen nieuws meer ontvingen van de Zeeuwse…”