Project on han Dialect (PHD)

中国方言调查的迅速发展，特别是近十年来，使中国方言学家有可能写出划时代的《中国语言地图集》（LAC）。LAC的目的是确定和显示主要方言或方言群之间的边界。半个世纪前，w·格罗塔斯提出对中国方言进行地理研究。不幸的是，他的建议以及他在晋北的开创性工作，一直被中国方言学界的主流所忽视。现在是时候再次重申格罗塔厄斯的建议了——用这种“圣教”方法来研究中国语言变化的必要性。汉语方言研究项目（PHD）旨在绘制汉语方言的语言地图。博士学位的理念是基于格鲁特和日本方言的传统，特别是“日本语言地图集”。我们将要绘制的地图只是试图揭示方言的历时性方面。在最初的三年里，我们建立了一个方言信息库，并为一些特定的语音、词汇和句法项目制作了一些样图。在数据库中，每个被调查的地点通过经纬度（地点编号）进行识别，并输入相应的信息。以数据库为基础，用60种邮票手工绘制语言地图。在进度报告中，这个项目的总体构想、对语言地图的解释和其他一些贡献列入第一卷；第2卷载有18幅地图；第三卷收录了方言信息数据库（6500个条目）和精选书目（1500个出版物）。

Rapid progress of dialect survey in China, particularly in the last ten years, made it possible for Chinese dialectologists to produce an epoch-making work, "LANGUAGE ATLAS OF CHINA" (LAC). The purpose of LAC is to determine and to show the boundaries between the major dialects or dialect groups.It was half a century ago that W. Grootaers proposed a geographical research of the dialects in China. Unfortunately, his proposal, as well as his pionieering works in Northern Shanxi, has been ignored in the mainstream of Chinese dialectology. Now it is time to renew Grootaers's proposal -- the necessity of this "cleissical" method for investigating linguistic changes in China -- again.Project on Han dialect (PHD) was designed to make linguistic maps of Han dialects. The idea of PHD is based on Grootaers as well as the tradition of Japanese dialectology, particularly that of "Linguistic Atlas of Japan". And the maps that we are going to make are nothing but attempts to reveal the diachronic aspects of the dialects. For the first three years, we made a database of dialectal information and some sample maps for some particular phonetic, lexical and syntactic items. In the data-base, every surveyed locality was identified by latitude and longitude (locality number), and relevant information was inputted for each. Based on the data-base, Iinguistic maps were made by hand using 60 types of stamps.In the progress report, the general idea of this project, the explanation for the linguistic maps and some other contributions are included in volume 1 ; 18 maps are shown in volume 2 ; and data-base for dialectal information (6, 500 items) as well as a selected bibliography (1, 500 publications) are outputted in volume 3.