A one-stop, comprehensive account of the key developments in the phonological history of Chinese.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas

An original new perspective on the shared history of Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan, with a particular focus on their phonological development.

A History of the Chinese Language provides a comprehensive introduction to the historical development of the Chinese language from its Proto-Sino-Tibetan roots

Published in the early part of this century, Bernhard Karlgren's classic work Etudes sur la phonologie chinoise laid the foundation in western sinology for the