TY - BOOK AU - Feng, Wang TI - Comparison of languages in contact: the distillation method and case of Bai SN - 986005228X AV - PL 3311.P34 .F46 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Nankang, Taipei PB - Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica KW - CHINESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE N1 - "2006-2-003-001-00087-1." Modified version of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2004, under the title: Language contact and language comparison; Includes bibliographical references; 1. Language contact and language comparison -- 2. Intra-comparison -- 3. Inter-comparison -- 4. Recognition -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- References N2 - This study proposes the Distillation Method for the comparative studies on languages in contact. This method in applied to the Bai language, which comes under heavy contact with Chinese ER -