CHINESE HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY WITH SPECIAL CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS (in Chinese)
有中国特色的汉语历史音韵学
Tsu-lin Mei 梅袓麟
Abstract 摘要
This paper tries to answer two questions: Do we need a Chinese historical phonology with special Chinese characteristics? What sort of historical phonology with special Chinese characteristics should we develop? The answer: In the work Karlgren, Fang-kuei Li, Yakhontov, we already have an Old Chinese phonology with special Chinese characteristics. (I )All these scholars use phonetic compounds as one of the sounces for Old Chinese reconstruction, and the use of Chinese characters is a distinctive feature of Chinese culture. (2)All modern scholars of Old Chinese phonology incorporate in their work two great achievements of Qing philologists: first, the establishment of the rhyme categories of the Sizijkig, and second, Duan Yucai's famous diction "words in the same phonetic series belong to the same Shying categories." Section three argues that the concept "alternation by a single sound"(yi sheng zhi zhuan) propagated by Wang Niansun in Guangya shuzheng led to the pseudo-scientic method used in etymological studies such as Wang Li's Tongyuan zidian and Xing Gongwan's Han-Thai yu bijiao shouce. Section four shows that Old Chinese had prefix *s- and cognates could be formed by adding *s- to the root.
Journal of Chinese Linguistics volume 30 (ISSN 0091-3723)
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