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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

Lee, Hae Woo 1

1우석대학교

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ABSTRACT

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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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.