RETHINKING THE *-S HYPOTHESIS FOR CHINESE QUSHENG TONE
去聲於*-s尾假說之再檢討
Feng Wang 汪鋒

Abstract 摘要
This paper re-examines the reconstruction of Old Chinese ending *-s as the origin of qusheng (departing tone) in Middle Chinese. Both external evidence and internal evidence for the *-s hypothesis are demonstrated to be insufficient. However, the consistency of external and internal evidence and the comparison between Bai and Chinese suggest that it is more compelling to establish two categories of qusheng words in Old Chinese, one category with *-s ending and the other without *-s ending.

本文重新考察了中古漢語去來源於上古漢語*-s尾的假說，指出支持該假說的內部証據並不充分。但來自各方面一致性証據都顯示更合理的假說是承認上古漢語的去聲分為兩類，一類有-s尾，另一類沒有-s尾。至於去聲的起源問題，目前的研究尚不足以作出確定的回答。

Subject Keywords 關鍵詞

Old Chinese 古漢語 Qusheng 去聲 The *-s hypothesis *-s尾假說 Bai 白語 Consistency 一致性

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