Comment Reconstruire Le Chinois Archaïque

Haudricourt, André-Georges

doi:10.1080/00437956.1954.11659532

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“…Baxter cites a few examples from Thai and TB languages (p.201); however, a number of early Chinese loans into Vietnamese having simple initial rcorresponding to MC 1-(as against 1-in Sino-Vietnamese) have been cited by Haudricourt (1954b);Jaxontov (1986Jaxontov ( [1976) added some Zhuang, Burmese and Lushai examples with the same correspondence. It does not appear that Baxter's examples represent an earlier layer than Haudricourt's or Jaxontov's.…”

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New Views on Old Chinese Phonology

Sagart

1993

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Sagart

1993

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“…These effects manifested themselves in the comments on the Chinese Classics from the Middle Chinese period by the fact that one and the same word (or character) was assigned to different tonal registers (for the development from *-s to tonality, cf. Haudricourt 1954, Wang Li 1958, Downer 1959. According to Mei (1980), the function of the suffix *-s is either the derivation of nouns from verbs (28) or the derivation of exodirectional verbs (wàixiàng dòngcí) out of endodirectional verbs (nèixiàng dòngcí) (29).…”

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Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech

Bisang¹

2008

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Late Archaic Chinese is a precategorial language, i.e., a language whose lexical items are not preclassified in the lexicon for the syntactic functions of N and V. This will be shown on the basis of structural-conceptual criteria as those developed by Croft (2000) and Sasse (1993b) as well as on the basis of methodological criteria as those suggested by Evans & Osada (2005). As is claimed in Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995, 2005), the meaning of lexical items is derived by integrating their own lexical meaning with the meaning contributed by the construction. The construction analysed in this paper is the argument structure construction. Linking between lexicon and syntax is subject to stereotypical pragmatic implicatures (Levinson 2000) that follow a version of the animacy hierarchy. As it will turn out, Late Archaic Chinese does not strictly lack parts of speech. In fact, without the distinction of nouns and verbs at the level of syntax it would not be possible to analyse utterances in Late Archaic Chinese. The only thing that Late Archaic Chinese can do without is noun/verb distinction in the lexicon. This typologically remarkable property is due to a process of morphological change. If such a historical process can take place irrespective of parts-of-speech distinctions, precategoriality in the lexicon cannot be a robust universal feature even if most theoretical approaches take it for granted.

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“…(For an overview on the morphology of Old Chinese see also Pulleyblank 2000 andHandel 2015). 15 This hypothesis was first presented in Haudricourt (1954aHaudricourt ( , 1954b) based on the tonogenesis in Vietnamese, which apparently lost its 'final laryngeals *-ʔ and *-h (*-h results from an earlier *-s): The characteristic micromelodies of the laryngeals, rising and falling, had become distinctive tones after the fall of the consonants themselves. He proposes the same tonogenesis for Chinese.…”

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“…a) The suffix *-s indicating the perfective aspect (Downer 1959;Jin 金理新 2006;Haudricourt 1954aHaudricourt , 1954bSagart 1999;Unger 1983;etc. ); or b) A voiceless (imperfective)-voiced (perfective) alternation of the root initial possibly caused by a former sonorant nasal prefix (Baxter and Sagart 1998;Karlgren 1933;Mei 梅祖麟 1988;etc.…”

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Modality and aspect and the thematic role of the subject in Late Archaic and Han period Chinese: obligation and necessity

Meisterernst

2017

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In this paper, the interplay of modal markers with the lexical aspect of the verb in Han period Chinese is at issue. Abraham and Leiss (Modality-aspect interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, 2008) propose a strong and possibly universal relation between the verbal aspect and either the root/deontic or the epistemic reading of a modal verb based on data from the Germanic languages. In this article, this hypothesis will be checked against the data of Late Archaic and Early Middle (Han period) Chinese. It will be proposed that a relation similar to that in the Germanic languages can also be established for Chinese at least for the root modal values, despite the obvious differences between the aspectual and modal system of Chinese and that of the Germanic languages. As in the Germanic languages, root modal verbs in general select verbs/predicates which are compatible with the perfective aspect, i.e. [+TELIC] verbs. Due to the fact that epistemic readings have not developed yet for modal auxiliary verbs, the constraints proposed in Abraham and Leiss for the epistemic reading of modal verbs in combination with imperfective or [−TELIC] verbs cannot be confirmed for LAC and EMC. Epistemic modality is expressed by sentential adverbs which take an entire proposition as their complement. These are less confined in their selectional restrictions than modal auxiliary verbs.

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Comment Reconstruire Le Chinois Archaïque

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New Views on Old Chinese Phonology

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Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech

Modality and aspect and the thematic role of the subject in Late Archaic and Han period Chinese: obligation and necessity

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