2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study of Old Chinese Phonology and new excavated documents: Yimu and preinitial *s-
| Project/Area Number |
16H07203
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Seikei University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 上古中国語 / 上古音 / 戦国出土資料 / 出土文献 / 声母 / 以母 y- / preinitial |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study tried to reconstruct the "Yimu (Middle Chinese y-) " and the preinitial *s- in Old Chinese. This study has revealed followings: (i) Yimu (y-) came originally at least from two initials in Old Chinese. This study re-examined this hypothesis by investigating the Xiesheng connections, phonetic loans seen in the excavated documents. Besides these studies, I tried to reconstruct the word "iron" in Old Chinese. (ii) the word "west" has *sn- as its onsets. Based on the Middle Chinese, the word "west" has a singleton onset *s-. Whereas, based on the resources from excavated documents such as oracle bones, bronze scripts, and bamboo slips, the word "west" had relationships with the word "to interrogate." And it had a character Ren "a person" as a phonetic element. It is concluded that the word "to interrogate" and "west" have *sn- for its onsets.
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| Free Research Field |
歴史言語学 中国語音韻史
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