The Chinese rime tables : linguistic philosophy and historical-comparative phonology
edited by 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.
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1. Introduction: What Are Rime Tables and What Do They Mean? (by Branner, David Prager), p1-34
2. Part I: Rime-Tables in Chinese Reconstruction
3. On the Principle of the Four Grades (by Chan, Abraham), p37-46
4. The Four Grades: An Interpretation from the perspective of Sino-altaic language contact (by Li, Chris Wen-Chao), p47-58
5. On Old Turkic Consonanticism and Vocalic Divisions of Acute Consonants in Medieval Han Phonology (by Lim, An-King), p59-82
6. The Qieyun System 'Divisions' as the Result of Vowel Warping (by Schuessler, Axel), p83-96
7. Part II: The History of Rime Table Texts and Reconstruction
8. Reflections on the Shouwen Fragments (by Coblin, W. South), p99-122
9. Zhang Linzhi on the Yunjing (by Coblin, W. South), p123-150
10. Simon Schaank and the Evolution of Western Beliefs About Traditional Chinese Phonology (by Branner, David Prager), p151-167
11. Part III: Rime Tables as Descriptive Tools
12. How Rime-Book Based Analyses Can Lead Us Astray (by Simmons, Richard VanNess), p171-182
13. Modern Chinese and the Rime Tables (by Norman, Jerry), p183-188
14. Common Dialect Phonology in Practice.: Y.R. Chao's Field Methodology (by Simmons, Richard VanNess), p189-208
15. Some Composite Phonological Systems in Chinese (by Branner, David Prager), p209-232
16. Common Dialectal Chinese (by Norman, Jerry), p233-254
17. Appendix I: Pronunciation Guide to Boodberg's Alternative Grammatonomic Notation (by Ledyard, Gari K.), p255-264
18. Appendix II: Comparative Transcriptions of Rime Table Phonology (by Branner, David Prager), p265-302
19. Bibliography, p303-326
20. Index of Biographical Names, p327-332
21. General Index, p333-358
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The Chinese rime tables : linguistic philosophy and historical-comparative phonology