The writing system of scribe Zhou : evidence from late pre-imperial Chinese manuscripts and inscriptions (5th-3rd centuries BCE) / Haeree Park
- Author:
- Park, Haeree, 1976-
- Published:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm.
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- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 1.1.Goal of the study -- 1.2.Subject materials -- 1.3.The Shanghai Museum "Zhouyi" manuscript -- 1.4.The Shuowen jiezi in the light of the Warring States manuscripts -- 1.4.1.Three archaic scripts, xiaozhuan, guwen and Zhouwen -- 1.4.2.The xiaozhuan `Small Seal script' as a regional variety of the Warring States script -- 1.4.3.The identity of the Zhouwen `Script of Scribe Zhou' and guwen `Old script' -- 2.The Old Chinese phonology -- 2.1.Manuscripts as new sources of data for Old Chinese -- 2.2.A reconstruction system of Old Chinese phonology -- 2.2.1.Overview -- 2.2.1.1.The third vs. non-third division syllables and the second division medial *-r- -- 2.2.1.2.The initial *r- -- 2.2.1.3.The initials *l- and *[g]- -- 2.2.1.4.The initials *z-, *s-g- and *s-d- -- 2.2.1.5.Uvular initials -- 2.2.1.6.The diphthongs -wa- and -we- -- 2.2.1.7.Nasal initials, *N- prefix, *s- prefix -- 2.2.1.8.Sources of MC sy- -- 2.2.1.9.Palatalization of velar and uvular initials -- 2.2.1.10.The coda *-r -- 2.2.1.11.The post-codas *-? and *-s, and *-s as a suffix -- 2.2.1.12.Inventories of simple initials and rhymes -- 2.2.2.Two notes -- 2.2.2.1.The uvulars -- 2.2.2.2.A reconsideration of the `Rounded vowel hypothesis' -- 3.The Shanghai "Zhouyi" and the Warring States script -- 3.1.Elaborate and casual styles -- 3.2.Decorative strokes -- 3.3.Simplification and development of the Warring States script -- 3.3.1.Stroke simplification -- 3.3.2.Simplification of graphic components -- 3.3.2.1.Deletion and interruption of components -- 3.3.2.2.Replacement by simpler forms -- 3.3.2.3.Compression and merger of components -- 3.3.3.Simplification and residue of iconicity -- 3.3.3.1.Diminishment of heavy dots, thick lines, and fillings -- 3.3.3.2.Neutralization of iconicity -- 3.3.3.3.Transition to the Warring States script -- 3.4.Structural variability in the early Chinese writing system -- 3.4.1.Graphic components and functional values -- 3.4.2.The tendency towards Signific-Phonophoric compound structure -- 3.4.2.1.Increase of compound characters in the Warring States script -- 3.4.2.2.Consequences for textual variation -- 3.4.2.3.The case of Shanghai "Zhouyi" and the received version -- 3.4.3.The case of the fu vessel -- 4.The Chu Script -- 4.1.The Five-region script system -- 4.2.The Common Warring States character forms -- 4.3.Chu regional character forms -- 4.3.1.Regional variation in componential structure -- 4.3.2.Regional variation in use of decorative strokes -- 4.3.3.Regional variation in simplified forms -- 4.3.4.Regional character shapes -- 4.4.The nature of regionalism in the Warring States script -- 4.5.Some `true' Chu characters for a diagnosis of the Chu script -- 5.The Shanghai "Zhouyi" and the Early Chinese Orthography -- 5.1.Synonymous Signifies -- 5.2.Equivalent phonophorics -- 5.2.1.Phonophorics in the early Chinese orthography -- 5.2.2.Western Zhou and Chu phonophorics -- 5.2.3.Negative particles -- 5.2.4.Sound symbolism and Phonograms -- 5.2.5.Old Chinese dialect words -- 5.2.6.Etymological relations -- 5.2.7.Phonologically motivated lexical variation -- 6.Conclusions -- 6.1.The last phase of the early Chinese writing system -- 6.2.Regionalism in a single script system -- 6.3.The Old Chinese phonology and the early Chinese orthography -- 6.4.Further implications.
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- ISBN:
- 9783110449440 (hardcover : alk. paper)
3110449447 (hardcover : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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