Linguistic Aspects of Taiwanese Southern Min

　　From the academic perspective, Southern Min is one of the Chinese Language families, a dialect. Specifically, Taiwanese Southern Min(TSM) has resulted from a mixture of Formosan languages, Dutch, Japanese and Mandarin by way of language contact. It has preserved the basic structure, but is quite different from the Southern Min spoken in Mainland China. TSM is the natural result of a mixture of different accents.

　　The author has dedicated his research life to the study of TSM, and the profound result of his study is revealed in this book.
 

作者簡介

林慶勳 Lin, Ching-Hsiun (1945-)

　　林慶勳 Lin, Ching-Hsiun (1945-) received his Ph. D. in Chinese Literature from Chinese Culture University (Taipei). He is professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Tokyo International University (2013-) and Professor Emeritus of Chinese Literature National Sun Yat-sen University (2011-) in Taiwan. He specializes in phonology, modern Chinese phonology and Taiwanese Language. Recently, he has focused on overseas Chinese languages, especially “Touwa”, Ryu-Han sound correspondence.

鍾榮富 Raung-fu Chung

　　鍾榮富 Raung-fu Chung received his PH. D. in linguistics from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1989, under the support of an MOE scholarship. He is Chair professor in the Department of Applied English, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Having previously held positions at National University of Singapore, and National Kaohsiung Normal University. He is the author of Chinese Phonology in Pedagogy (2011), Contrastive Analysis and Mandarin Teaching (2010), An Introduction to Contemporary Linguistics (2004), The Hakka Language─Tracks Left in Formosa Taiwan (2002), The Meinony
 

Chapter 1. Basic Concepts 第一章　幾項基本觀念
I. The definition of Sounthern Min in Taiwan 一、臺灣閩南語的性質
II. Population of Taiwanese dialects 二、臺灣的語言人口分布
III. Methods of studying TSM 三、研究臺灣閩南語的方法

Chapter 2. Historical Developments of TSM 第二章　臺灣閩南語的歷史發展
I. The meaning of developments 一、臺灣閩南語歷史發展分期的意義
II. Different stages 二、分期說明
III. Events in the history 三、臺灣閩南語發展大事記

Chapter 3. Characteristics of Southern Min in Taiwan第三章　臺灣閩南語的語言特點
I. Phonetic characteristics 一、語音特點
II. Lexical characteristics 二、詞彙特點
III. Grammatical characteristics 三、語法特點

Chapter 4. The phonology of Taiwan Southern Min 第四章　臺灣閩南語的語音系統
I. Initials 一、聲母
II. Rimes 二、韻母
III. Tones 三、聲調
VI. Phonotactics: Initials, rimes, and tones 四、聲韻調的配合
V. Phonological variation 五、音變
VI. Accents 六、腔調
VII. Literary and colloquial reading 七、文讀與白讀

Chapter 5. Writing and Transcription in TSM 第五章　臺灣閩南語的文字與標音
I. Chinese characters 一、漢字系統
II. Church Romanization 二、教會羅馬字
III. Alphabet system of TSM 三、臺灣閩南語方音符號
IV. Kana in TSM 四、臺灣閩南語假名（kana）
Selected Bibliography 參考書目
Appendix 附錄
The Syllable structure of TSM 臺灣閩南語的音節結構