The Chinese Rime Tables Linguistic Philosophy and Historical Comparative Phonology 1st Edition by David Prager Branner ISBN 978-9027247858 9027247854

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ISBN 10:   9027247854

ISBN 13:  978-9027247858

Author:  David Prager Branner
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.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Rime Tables and Reconstruction

On the Principle of the Four Grades

An Interpretation from the Perspective of Sinoaltaic Language Contact

On Old Turkic Consonantism and Vocalic Divisions of Acute Consonants in Medieval Hàn Phonology

The Qièyùn System Divisions as the Result of Vowel Warping

Part II: The History of Rime Table Texts and Reconstruction

Reflections on the Shouwen Fragments

How Rime Book Based Analyses Can Lead Us Astray

Modern Chinese and the Rime Tables

Common Dialect Phonology in Practice: Yr Chaos Field Methodology

Some Composite Phonological Systems in Chinese

Common Dialectal Chinese

Appendix I: A Note on the Pronunciation Guide to Peter Boodberg’s AGN

Appendix II: Comparative Transcriptions of Rime Table Phonology

Bibliography

Zhang Línzhi on the Yùnjìng

Simon Schaank and the Evolution of Western Beliefs About Traditional Chinese Phonology

Part III: Rime Tables as Descriptive Tools

Index of Biographical Names

General Index

The Series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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