The chief task of Chinese historical dialectology is to explain how the present-day dialects were formed.This is not an easy task since we still have only a very incomplete record of modern words.Historical records of...The chief task of Chinese historical dialectology is to explain how the present-day dialects were formed.This is not an easy task since we still have only a very incomplete record of modern words.Historical records of ancient dialects are unfortunately even more sparse,and while the recording of modern dialects is an on-going process,the amount of dialectal data known from written sources of early centuries is unlikely to increase appreciably.Moreover,dialectal data from historical sources is of a fragmentary and unsystematic nature.But despite these shortcomings,in some casesthese ancient recordings can and do shed light on problems in modern dialectology.In this paper I will examine a number of such ancient dialect words and attempt to interpret their significance.展开更多
In 2005,the Jilin Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology carried out archaeological survey and excavation to investigate the two groups of remains of the "24 stones" at Jiangdong and Linshen...In 2005,the Jilin Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology carried out archaeological survey and excavation to investigate the two groups of remains of the "24 stones" at Jiangdong and Linsheng townships in the suburbs of Dunhua City.They discovered a batch of completely new data on these vestiges.The remains are pedestals arranged in three west-to-east eight-stone rows.Beneath each row of pedestals is a groove filled with yellow clay and basalt fragments.The excavation furnished new data to clarifying the date,nature and function of the "24 stones."展开更多
文摘The chief task of Chinese historical dialectology is to explain how the present-day dialects were formed.This is not an easy task since we still have only a very incomplete record of modern words.Historical records of ancient dialects are unfortunately even more sparse,and while the recording of modern dialects is an on-going process,the amount of dialectal data known from written sources of early centuries is unlikely to increase appreciably.Moreover,dialectal data from historical sources is of a fragmentary and unsystematic nature.But despite these shortcomings,in some casesthese ancient recordings can and do shed light on problems in modern dialectology.In this paper I will examine a number of such ancient dialect words and attempt to interpret their significance.
文摘In 2005,the Jilin Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology carried out archaeological survey and excavation to investigate the two groups of remains of the "24 stones" at Jiangdong and Linsheng townships in the suburbs of Dunhua City.They discovered a batch of completely new data on these vestiges.The remains are pedestals arranged in three west-to-east eight-stone rows.Beneath each row of pedestals is a groove filled with yellow clay and basalt fragments.The excavation furnished new data to clarifying the date,nature and function of the "24 stones."
