Michel Ferlus
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michel Ferlus is involved.
Articles
2015 Strata of standardization: The Phong Nha dialect of Vietnamese (Quảng Bình Province) in historical perspective Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 38:1, pp. 124–162 | Article
The present research, based on first-hand data, is intended as a contribution to the study of the present-day diversity of lesser-described Vietnamese dialects, and of the range of evolutionary paths to which they testify. The Vietnamese dialect of the hamlet of Phong Nha (commune of Sơn Trạch,… read more
2009 What were the four divisions of Middle Chinese? Diachronica 26:2, pp. 184–213 | Article
Determining the nature of the four Divisions of the Qièyùn is a fundamental problem in the study of the phonetic history of Chinese. Analyses by Pulleyblank and Baxter make it possible to bring out two major changes from Old Chinese to Middle Chinese: a two-way split of the vowel system, and later… read more
1998 Les Systèmes De Tons Dans Les Langues Viet-Muong Diachronica 15:1, pp. 1–27 | Article
SUMMARY The Viet-Muong languages present a wide variety of systems having four to six tones, and reflecting two earlier systems: a six-tone system and a four-tone system in which final -h is preserved. Vietnamese, Muòng and Cuoi are representative of a pure six-tone system in the traditional… read more