Review of "Les Langues Hmong-Mjen (Miao-Yao): phonologie historique"

Sometimes the most useful works of scholarship are not those which present original insights into problems, but those that collect and synthesize the hard-won findings of earlier scholarship, providing a comprehensive reference which consolidates the accomplishments of the discipline. One such work...

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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1780262024-06-07T01:33:39Z Review of "Les Langues Hmong-Mjen (Miao-Yao): phonologie historique" Mortensen, David University of California, Berkeley Arts and Humanities Sometimes the most useful works of scholarship are not those which present original insights into problems, but those that collect and synthesize the hard-won findings of earlier scholarship, providing a comprehensive reference which consolidates the accomplishments of the discipline. One such work is Barbara Niederer's Les longues Hmong-Mjen: phonologie historique. This book was published in 1998, but despite its great importance for Hmong-Mien studies, it has not yet (to my knowledge) been subject to a published review. This may be due in part to the relative obscurity of the Hmong-Mien language family. After all, the community of Hmong-Mien historical phonologists is not a large one. However, the central position of the Hmong-Mien (HmM) languages in the East/Southeast Asian linguistic area should make them of interest to a broad range of scholars working on other languages in that area, and Niederer's book will be of great value to such scholars. Published version 2024-06-07T01:33:38Z 2024-06-07T01:33:38Z 2002 Journal Article Mortensen, D. (2002). Review of "Les Langues Hmong-Mjen (Miao-Yao): phonologie historique". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 25(2), 243-246. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.25.2.13 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178026 10.32655/LTBA.25.2.13 2 25 243 246 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 2002 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf
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Review of "Les Langues Hmong-Mjen (Miao-Yao): phonologie historique"
description Sometimes the most useful works of scholarship are not those which present original insights into problems, but those that collect and synthesize the hard-won findings of earlier scholarship, providing a comprehensive reference which consolidates the accomplishments of the discipline. One such work is Barbara Niederer's Les longues Hmong-Mjen: phonologie historique. This book was published in 1998, but despite its great importance for Hmong-Mien studies, it has not yet (to my knowledge) been subject to a published review. This may be due in part to the relative obscurity of the Hmong-Mien language family. After all, the community of Hmong-Mien historical phonologists is not a large one. However, the central position of the Hmong-Mien (HmM) languages in the East/Southeast Asian linguistic area should make them of interest to a broad range of scholars working on other languages in that area, and Niederer's book will be of great value to such scholars.
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