Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese write by Axel Schuessler. This book was released on 2009-04-14. Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although long out of date, Bernard Karlgren’s (1957) remains the most convenient work for looking up Middle Chinese (ca. A.D. 600) and Old Chinese (before 200 B.C.) reconstructions of all graphs that occur in literature from the beginning of writing (ca. 1250 B.C.) down to the third century B.C. In the present volume, Axel Schuessler provides a more current reconstruction of Old Chinese, limiting it, as far as possible, to those post-Karlgrenian phonological features of Old Chinese that enjoy some consensus among today’s investigators. At the same time, the updating of the material disregards more speculative theories and proposals. Schuessler refers to these minimal forms as "Minimal Old Chinese" (OCM). He bases OCM on Baxter’s 1992 reconstructions but with some changes, mostly notational. In keeping with its minimal aspect, the OCM forms are kept as simple as possible and transcribed in an equally simple notation. Some issues in Old Chinese phonology still await clarification; hence interpolations and proposals of limited currency appear in this update. Karlgren’s Middle Chinese reconstructions, as emended by Li Fang-kuei, are widely cited as points of reference for historical forms of Chinese as well as dialects. This emended Middle Chinese is also supplied by Schuessler. Another important addition to Karlgren’s work is an intermediate layer midway between the Old and Middle Chinese periods known as "Later Han Chinese" (ca. second century A.D.) The additional layer makes this volume a useful resource for those working on Han sources, especially poetry. This book is intended as a "companion" to the original Grammata Serica Recensa and therefore does not repeat other information provided there. Matters such as English glosses and references to the earliest occurrence of a graph can be looked up in Grammata Serica Recensa itself or in other relevant dictionaries. The great accomplishment of this companion volume is to update an essential reference and thereby fulfill the need for an accessible and user-friendly source for citing the various historically reconstructed stages of Chinese.
Old Chinese
Old Chinese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Chinese write by William H. Baxter. This book was released on 2014. Old Chinese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book introduces a new linguistic reconstruction of the phonology, morphology, and lexicon of Old Chinese, the language of the earliest Chinese classical texts (1st millennium BCE).
ABC Chinese-English Dictionary
ABC Chinese-English Dictionary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ABC Chinese-English Dictionary write by John DeFrancis. This book was released on 2023-12-31. ABC Chinese-English Dictionary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This dictionary, also available in a pocket edition, ushers in a new era in Chinese lexicography. The first strictly alphabetically ordered and Pinyin computerized dictionary, it offers the simplest and quickest way to look up a term whose pronunciation is known. User-friendly radical and stroke indexes are provided for those cases when pronunciation of a term is not known. Each entry provides Chinese characters, part of speech, environment (area and level of usage), definition in English, and, possibly, examples. An innovative typographical format packs more than 71,400 entries into a handy, portable size without any sacrifice of legibility.
A Phonological History of Chinese
A Phonological History of Chinese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Phonological History of Chinese write by Zhongwei Shen. This book was released on 2020-06-04. A Phonological History of Chinese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A one-stop, comprehensive account of the key developments in the phonological history of Chinese.
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics write by William S.-Y. Wang. This book was released on 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation and even developing new syntactic structures. It also accompanies traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology with empirical evidence from psychology and neurocognitive sciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Chinese languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan.
