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A Study on the Chronological Strata and Regional Property of Literary and Colloquial Reading in The Alphabetic Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect
Journal of Chinese Language and Literature
2013,
(63), pp.199-222
DOI : 10.15792/clsyn..63.201308.199
Publisher : Chinese Literary Society Of Yeong Nam
Research Area : Chinese Language and Literature
DOI : 10.15792/clsyn..63.201308.199
Publisher : Chinese Literary Society Of Yeong Nam
Research Area : Chinese Language and Literature
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This study investigates the chronological strata and regional property of Literary and Colloquial Reading in The Alphabetic Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect, which was compiled by C. C. Baldwin and R. S. Maclay in 1897. The Literary and Colloquial Reading occupies about 4% of the characters in The Alphabetic Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect. It can be said that the Literary Reading reflects Middle Chinese strictly, however, Colloquial Reading shares the traces of Old Chinese and even the most advanced chronological strata. Colloquial Reading ‘畝’ [muɔ] has experienced the process of [-u] → [-uɔ], which has undergone the much more advanced sound change than Mandarin [mu]. The phenomenon that the finals of the Fuzhou(福州) dialect are changed according to the tonal differences is originated from The Alphabetic Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect.
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