Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese. A Companion to Grammata Serica Recensa

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Bernhard Karlgren's Archaic Chinese (= Old Chinese, OC) as presented in his standard work Grammata Serica Recensa (GSR) of 1957 has long been outdated. This present manual is an attempt to update GSR with a relatively simple “Minimal Old Chinese*' (OCM, for OC Minimal) which incorporates those features on which there is broad agreement among investigators today. Contents PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS GSC ENTRIES TRANSCRIPTIONS SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION 1 APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF CHINESE 1.1 Alphabetic records 1.2 The comparative method and internal reconstruction 1.3 The philological approach 1.4 Segments of a Chinese syllable 1.5 Ancient stages and dialects 2 MIDDLE CHINESE AND THE QIEYUN 2.1 The rime dictionary Qieynjn 2.2 MC notational systems 2.3 Middle Chinese tones 2.4 The QYS (MC) medials and 'Divisions,等 2.5 Problems with the Qieyun and Middle Chinese 3 OLD CHINESE; PHONETIC SERIES 3.1 Composite graphs 3.2 The Xiesheng principle 3.3 Incongruous series 4 OLD CHINESE THROUGH INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION 4.1 The distribution of QY initials 4.2 MC initial y 4.3 MC palatal initials 4.4 MC media) w and u 4.5 OC consonant clusters and *r 4.6 OC syllable types A and B: QYS Div, III and medial yod 5 OLD CHINESE THROUGH THE XIESHENG SYSTEM 5.1 Initial consonants 5.2 Chongniu doublets 5.3 OC sources of MC tones 5.4 Summary of OC rimes 5.5 Summary of OC initials 6 MINIMAL OLD CHINESE: PRINCIPLES AND CRITERIA 7 LATER HAN CHINESE 7.1 Phonemes 7.2 No consonant clusters 7.3 Palatalization of certain velar consonants 7.4 Tones and vowel length 7.5 LHan Final-s 7.6 Vowel bending or warping 8 HAN PERIOD SOURCES ON PHONOLOGY 8.1 The Shudwen jiezi 8.2 Sound glosses 9 INTERPRETATIONS OF IRREGULAR PHONETIC COMPOUNDS 9.1 Premises 9.2 IHustrations for premises and assumptions 10 CONCLUSION REFERENCES 1 OCM rime *・a Yubti 魚部 2 OCM rime 七ak Dud bu 鐸部 3 OCM rime *-ag Yang bd 陽部 4 OCM rime *-□ Zhfbii 之部 5 OCM rime *-ok Zhf bii 臓部 6 OCM rime Zheng bu 蒸部 7 OCM rime *-e Zhfbu 支部 8 OCM rime *-ek Xfbii 錫部 9 OCM rime *-eg Geng bu 耕部 10 OCM rime *-o Hou bu 侯部 11 OCM rime *-ok Wu bii 屋部 12 OCM rime *-og Dong bu 東部 13 OCM rime *-u You bu 幽部 14 OCM rime *-uk Jud bu 覺部 15 OCM rime *-ur） DOng bu 冬部 16 OCM rime *-au Xiao bu 宵部 17 OCM rime *-auk Yio bii 藥部 18 OCM rime *-ai Ge bii 歌部（I） 19 OCM rime *-oi, *-wai Ge bii 歌部（2） 20 OCM rime *-ett *-es Yue-Ji bu 月祭部（1） 21 OCM rime *-at, *-as YudJlbii 月祭部（2） 22 OCM rime *-ol% *-wat, *-os,*'Was Y- Ji bu 月祭部（3） 23 OCM rime *-en Yuan bu 元部（I） 24 OCM rime *-an Yuan bu 元部（2） 25 OCM rime *-on, *-wan Yuan bii 元部（3） 26 OCM rime *-it *-ai Zhfbu 脂部 27 OCM rime Wei bu 微部⑴ 28 OCM rime *-ui, *wai Wei bu 微部（2） 29 OCM rime *-it, Zhi bu 質部 30 OCM rime *-at, *-o（t）s Wii bu 物部（1） 31 OCM rime *-ut, *-u（t）s Wu bu 物部（2） 32 OCM rime *-in Zhen bu 真部 33 OCM rime *-an Wen bu 文部⑴ 34 OCM rime *-un, *-wan Wen bu 文部 ⑵ 35 OCM rime *-ap, *-ep He bu 盍部 36 OCM rime *-am, *-em Tan bu 談部 37 OCM rime *-ap, *-ip Qrbu 緝部 38 OCM rime ・ *-im Qm bu 侵部 GSR NUMBER = GSCNUMBER PINYIN INDEX