Subject: yuen ren society conference

annual conference , yuen ren society for the promotion of chinese dialect fieldwork 7 february , 1998 317 thomson hall , university of washington , seattle admission is free and open to the public . * * * * * * * * * * * * program * * * * * * * * * * * * panel i 9 : 00-10 : 30 chair : david prager branner 9 : 00 the jintarn and danyang dialects richard vanness simmons , rutgers university 9 : 30 literary vs . vernacular pronunciation of characters ( wenbaiyidu ) in shanghai sheng - tai chang , [ no affiliation ] 10 : 00the evolution of the jiang1 - yan2 dialect jiangmin zhang and lina lu , pacific university * * * * * * * * * * * * 10 : 30 break * * * * * * * * * * * * panel ii 11 : 00-12 : 00 chair : south coblin 11 : 00 ngai hua of luo2 - cheng2 county , guang3 - xi1 province jerold a . edmondson , university of texas at arlington gui minchao , university of oklahoma 11 : 30 hakka revisited jerry norman , university of washington * * * * * * * * * * * * 12 : 00 lunch break * * * * * * * * * * * * panel iii 2 : 00 - 3 : 30 chair : jerry norman 2 : 00 common features of the shan1 - xi1 and the southern dialects anne yue - hashimoto , university of washington 2 : 30 a brief history of mandarin w . south coblin , university of iowa 3 : 00 ji3 - nan2 , an endangered dialect hua lin , university of victoria , canada cao zhiyun , beijing language and culture university , china * * * * * * * * * * * * 3 : 30 break * * * * * * * * * * * * panel iv 4 : 00 - 5 : 30 chair : richard vanness simmons 4 : 00 a glossary of the nantong dialect benjamin ao , [ no affiliation ] 4 : 30 taiwanese southern min " thumb " warren brewer , tamkang university , taiwan 5 : 00 on some numeral codes david prager branner , university of minnesota
