Philologie Et Linguistique Dans Les Etudes Sinologiques

Serruys, Paul L-M

doi:10.1080/02549948.1943.11745174

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“…Karlgren's postulation of these two earlier stages of the Chinese language inspired further work by sinologists resulting in revisions and new breakthroughs, and provided indisputable evidence for the genetic relationship of Sinitic languages, though be it mainly on the basis of phonology and the lexicon. iii Nonetheless, the focus on phonetic laws and the use of the neo-grammarian approach with its assumption of homogeneous data in Chinese linguistic reconstruction was early criticized by Grootaers (1943) and Serruys (1943) as the sole means of relating dialects to Old and Middle Chinese. In particular, they both objected to Karlgren's use of character lists for elicitation and dialect dictionaries based on the reading of standard Chinese characters.…”

Section: The Comparative Methods and Reconstruction Of Siniticmentioning

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Language Contact and Areal Diffusion in Sinitic Languages

Chappell

2001

Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance

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This analysis includes a description of language-contact phenomena such as stratification, hybridization, and convergence for Sinitic languages. It also presents typologically unusual grammatical features for Sinitic such as double-patient constructions, negative existential constructions and agentive adversative pass ives, while tracing the development of complementizers and diminutives and demarcating the extent of their use across Sinitic and the Sinospheric zone. Both these kinds of data are then used to explore the issue of the adequacy of the comparative method to model linguistic relationships inside and outside the Sinitic family. It is argued that any adequate explanation of language family formation and development needs to take into account these different kinds of evidence (or counter-evidence) in modelling genetic relationships.

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Section: The Comparative Methods and Reconstruction Of Siniticmentioning

confidence: 99%