SOME RECENT SOUND SHIFTS IN CHAOZHOU AND OTHER SOUTHERN MIN DIALECTS

Professor Chao Yuen Ren's broad scholarship in so many aspects of linguistics, attested in his numerous works of outstanding value, has provided a most challenging model of excellence; scholars in the field of Chinese linguistics especially are much indebted to him for stimulating contributions, but will miss him also for his warm human qualities and inimitable wit. It is fitting in honoring the memory of this eminent linguist that an offering for this volume can, at least in a small way, make use of data that Professor Chao himself gathered many years ago, but which have remained unpublished until now. They form a part of the Liang-Yue Fangyan Diaocha 兩粵方言調查 of 1928 and 1929 that A. Hashimoto described so well in 1970.