The Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic philosophy and historical-comparative phonology: 271 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

9789027247858: The Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic philosophy and historical-comparative phonology: 271 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

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ISBN 10: 9027247854 ISBN 13: 9789027247858

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2006

This book, the first in its field in a Western language, examines China’s native phonological tool with regard to reconstruction, theory, and linguistic philosophy.
After an introductory essay on the nature of the tables and the history of their interpretation, the book concentrates on three areas: application of rime table theory to reconstruction, the history of rime table theory, and the application of the tables to descriptive linguistics. An appendix details a number of 20th century systems for transcribing their phonology into Roman letters.
Major topics include Altaic contact-influence on Chinese, early native understanding of the tables’ meaning, the phonological work of Yuen Ren Chao, and Stammbaumtheorie/diasystemic thinking about Chinese. New reconstructions of Han and “Common Dialectal” phonology appear here, as do complete texts and translations of the Shouwen fragments and Yunjing preface.

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A rime is a Chinese phonological category embracing all syllables that share the same final, the same end-part of a given Chinese syllable, and the rime table is a systematic syllabary that was used in China to make phonology easier to learn and use from about the 12th to the early 19th centuries. Linguists working in the US cover rime tables and r

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