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

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Acknowlegments......Page 14
GSC Entries......Page 16
Transcriptions......Page 20
Symbols and Abbreviations......Page 22
1.1 Alphabetic records......Page 26
1.2. The comparative method and internal reconstruction......Page 27
1.4 Segments of a Chinese syllable......Page 28
1.5 Ancient stage and dialects......Page 29
2.1 The rime dictionary Qieyun......Page 30
2.3 Middle Chinese tones......Page 31
2.4 The QYS (MC) medials and \'Divisions\'......Page 32
2.5 Problems with the Qieyun and Middle Chinese......Page 34
3.1 Composie graphs......Page 35
3.2 The Xiesheng principle......Page 36
4.1 The distribution of QY initials......Page 37
4.4 MC medial w and u......Page 38
4.5 OC consonant clusters and *r......Page 39
4.6 OC syllable types A and B: QYS Div. III and medial yod......Page 41
5.1 Initial consonants......Page 42
5.2 Chongniu doublets......Page 45
5.3 OC sources of MC tones......Page 47
5.4 Summary of OC times......Page 50
5.5 Summary of OC initials......Page 51
6 Minimal Old Chinese: Principles and Criteria......Page 52
7.4 Tones and vowel length......Page 54
7.6 Vowel bending or warping......Page 55
8.1 The Shuowin jiezi......Page 56
8.2 Sound glosses......Page 57
9.1 Premises......Page 59
9.2 Illlustations for premises and assumptions......Page 60
10 Conclusion......Page 64
References......Page 65
1 OCM rime *-a Yu bu......Page 70
2 OCM rime *-ak Duo bu......Page 89
3 OCM rime *-an Yang  bu......Page 100
4 OCM rime *-e Zhi bu......Page 116
5 OCM rime *ek Shi bu......Page 132
6 OCM rime *-en Zheng bu......Page 139
7 OCM rime *-e Zhi bu......Page 144
8 OCM rime *-ek Xi bu......Page 154
9 OCM rime *-en Geng bu......Page 160
10 OCM rime *-o Hou bu......Page 170
11 OCM rime *-ok Wu bu......Page 181
12 OCM rime *-on Dong bu......Page 187
13 OCM rime *-u You bu......Page 195
14 OCM rime *-uk Jue bu......Page 210
15 OCM rime *-un Dong bu......Page 215
16 OCM rime *-au Xilao bu......Page 218
17 OCM rime *-auk Yao bu......Page 230
18 OCM rime *-ai Ge bu......Page 235
19 OCM rime *-oi, *-wai Ge bu......Page 244
20 OCM rime *-et, *-es Yue- Ji bu......Page 250
21 OCM rime *-at, *-as Yue- Ji bu......Page 255
22 OCM rime *-ot, *-wat, *-os, *-was Yue Ji bu......Page 264
23 OCM rime *-en Yuan bu......Page 269
24 OCM rime *-an Yuan bu......Page 276
25 OCM rime *-on, *-wan Yuan bu......Page 289
26 OCM rime *-i, *-ei Zhi bu......Page 300
27 OCM rime *-ei Wei bu......Page 311
28 OCM *-ui, *wei Wei bu......Page 315
29 OCM rime *-it, *-i(t)s Zhi bu......Page 321
30 OCM rime *-et, *-e(t)s Wu bu......Page 330
31 OCM rime *-yt, *-u(t)s......Page 336
32 OCM rime *-in Zhen bu......Page 341
33 OCM rime *-en Wen bu......Page 350
34 OCM rime *-un, *-wen Wen bu......Page 358
35 OCM rime *-ap, *-ep He bu......Page 366
36 OCM rime *-am, *-em Tan bu......Page 371
37 OCM rime *-ep, *-ip Qi bu......Page 379
38 OCM rime *-em, *-im Qin bu......Page 384
GSR Number = GSC Number......Page 394
Pinyin Index......Page 400