WINTER QUARTER 2000 CHINESE 681 History of the Chinese Language Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan Dept. of E. Asian Lang. & Lit. The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 U.S.A.

1. Jerry Norman (1988). Chinese. Cambridge U. Press. (Required)
2. James J.Y. Liu (1962). The Art of Chinese Poetry. Chicago U. Press. (Optional).
3. Edwin G. Pulleyblank (1995). Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar. Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press. (Optional)
4. Readings Package (in 208 Cunz Hall, with another copy on Reserve in Main Library if needed).
5. Reference and other resources on Reserve at Main Library
   Check OSU Libraries' Course Reserves (by Prof/TA or Course) for an online list of books placed on Reserve for Chinese 681. (C681 reserved materials are listed online for the current quarter only.)

This course investigates the relationship between modern Chinese and earlier stages in the history of the Chinese language, including its dialects. Also covered briefly are the Chinese writing system and some metrical structures of early poetic traditions.

Chinese 681 (History of the Chinese Language) is designed to introduce graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students in Chinese language and literature to important phonological and grammatical features in different periods in the history of the Chinese language. Rhyme dictionaries and rhyme tables will be examined for their contribution to our understanding of earlier stages in the phonological system of the Chinese language, and of changes in rhyming practices. Development of grammatical features in the history of the language will also be examined. Included as part of the course will be a cursory look at the origin and evolution of the Chinese script, the classification and development of modern Chinese dialects, taboo words and their effect on language change, and the relationship between language and literature. Other topics may also be included.

The course will be conducted through lectures combined with class discussions of assigned readings. Course work includes students' writing in their e-journal and submission of a reaction paper/research project.

Students are expected to read and reflect on all assigned readings prior to class, and are expected attend and participate actively in class discussions.

In addition, students are expected to:

1. prepare an on-going, e-journal that records their reactions to the readings, comments on topics or problems discussed in class, others' e-journal entries, and observations and analyses of other related issues relevant to the course.

2. present an oral version of their term paper (reaction paper or small research project) in the last week of class

3. submit a ("circa") 10-page, double-spaced, typed term paper, including bibliography and appendices (if applicable).
   

There will be no final examination. Grading will be based on:

Class discussions/participation	30%
E-journal	30%
Term paper	40%
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	100%

WEEK 1
1/4	Y2K postponement of first day of class.	1/6	Introduction and Orientation

WEEK 2
1/11	Highlights in the History of Chinese Linguistics Reading: Wang (1989) Reading: Pulleyblank (1995), Ch.1     (esp. first 3 sections) Suppl. Reading: Halliday (1981) Chart 1 (Chronological chart) U. of Virginia: Chinese Text Initiative (Search under 300 Tang Poems (in Pinyin or Big5) for Liu Zongyuan (柳宗元)'s "Jiang Xue" (River Snow).) Take-home Assignment -- replaced with e-journal (1/12/00)	1/13	China's Linguistic Neighbors; Periodization of the Chinese Language Reading: Norman (Ch. 1 & 2.1) Reading: Tai and Chan (1999) Suppl. Reading: Li (1973) Gou3 or quan3 'dog' (in Chinese dialects) Etymological Databases

WEEK 3
1/18	Middle Chinese Reading: Ramsey (1987), pp.116-134 Reading: Norman (Ch. 2.2-2.4 & 7.7) Suppl. Reading: Baxter (1992, Ch. 2.1-2.2) Suppl. Reading: Chen (1999, Ch.2.1) Table 1 (periodization table) Table 2 (rhyme books & periodization) Table 3 (Qieyun versions) Yunjing: 36 Initials Late Middle Chinese: 36 Initials Grades (Deng) Qieyun Zhizhang Tu: Table 1 QYZZT: Merger of two Dong rhymes     (see S. Goertzen's Yunjing chart)     Wu1 'house' & Wo4 'irrigate'	1/20	(cont'd) Suppl. Reading: Norman & Coblin (1995) Suppl. Reading: Pulleyblank (1998) Suppl. Reading: Coblin (1996) Suppl. Reading: Ting (1998)

WEEK 4
1/25	Old Chinese Reading: Ramsey (1987), pp.134-139 Reading: Norman (Ch. 2.5 & 2.7) Suppl. Reading: Li (1983) Suppl. Reading: Baxter (1991) Suppl. Reading: Baxter (1992, Ch.4)	1/27	Old Mandarin Reading: Ramsey (1987), pp.139-142 Reading: Norman (Ch. 2.6) Reading: Stimson (1962), pp.114-117 Reading: Hsueh (1975), pp.13-25 Zhongyuan Yinyun: Initials Comparison w. LMC & Modern Beijing Zhongyuan Yinyun: Finals

WEEK 5 Saturday, 5 February 2000 Happy Chinese New Year (Year of the Dragon)!
2/1	Linguistic Structure & Chinese Poetry Reading: Liu (1962), pp.20-47 Online & Archived Classical Chin. Lit.         (part of MC's ChinaLinks1) U. of Virginia: Chinese Text Initiative (Search under 300 Tang Poems (in Pinyin or Big5) for Li Shangyin's untitled poem in Liu (ch.3) (李商隱: 無題) and Wang Wei's "Wei Cheng Qu" (王維: 渭城曲).) John Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn William Blake's Auguries of Innocence	2/3	Taboos & Language Change Reading: Stimson (1966) Suppl. Readings: Li (1982, 1994) Suppl. Reading: Zhang (1985)

WEEK 6
2/8	The Classical & Literary Languages Reading: Pulleyblank (1995, Ch. 1-4) Reading: Norman (Ch. 4) Suppl. Reading: Downer (1959) Shuhai Wenyuan Classical Chinese Database	2/10	Rise & Dev. of the Written Vernacular Reading: Norman (Ch. 5) Suppl. Reading: Chen (1999, Ch. 5) Turn in project proposal and   select references.

WEEK 7
2/15	The Chinese Script Reading: Norman (Ch. 3) Review: Norman (Ch. 7.7)	2/17	Script & Society Reading: T'sou (1981) Suppl. Reading: Serruys (1984)

WEEK 8
2/22	Dialect Classification; Dialectal Variation in North China Reading: Norman (Ch. 8) Suppl. Readings: Li (1989a, 1989b)   (See also: Language Atlas of China) Chinese Dialectology (part of MC's ChinaLinks3; incl. links to online databases for Chinese Dialects)	2/24	Dialectal Variation in Central China Reading: Norman (Ch. 8, cont'd)

WEEK 9
3/1	Dialects of the Southeast Reading: Norman (Ch. 9)	3/3	Dialects of the Southeast (cont'd)

WEEK 10
3/7	Student Presentations	3/9	Student Presentations

WEEK 11: EXAM WEEK
Term Paper Deadline Monday, 13 March 2000, 4:00 p.m. This may be submitted as an RTF file via email attachment and/or in hardcopy in M. Chan's mailbox. (Request for extension must be made by 03/10/2000.)		Guest Speaker Professor Edwin G. Pulleyblank University of British Columbia "Chinese Traditional Phonology" Thursday, 16 March 2000 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. 300 Cunz Hall Light refreshment afterwards.

(Arranged in order of reading assignment. Chinese characters are encoded in UTF-8.)

1. Wang, William S-Y. 1989. "Language in China: a chapter in the history of linguistics." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 17.2:183-222.

2. Tai, James H-Y. and Marjorie K.M. Chan. (1999). "Some reflections on the periodization of the Chinese language." Studies in Chinese Historical Syntax and Morphology: Linguistic Essays in Honor of Mei Tsu-lin [Collection des Cahiers de Linguistique d'Asie Orientale], edited by Alain Peyraube and Chaofen Sun. Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Pages 223-239.

3. Ramsey, S. Robert. 1987. The Languages of China. Princeton: Princeton U. Press. (Excerpt: Chapter 7, "History", pp.116-142)

4. Liu, James J.Y. 1962. The Art of Chinese Poetry. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press. (Excerpt: Part I, Chapters 3 and 4, pp.20-47)

5. Stimson, Hugh M. 1962. "Phonology of the Chung Yuan Yin Yun." Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies New Series III.1:114-159. (Excerpt: pp. 114-117)

6. Hsueh, Feng-sheng. 1975. Phonology of Old Mandarin. Mouton: The Hague. (Excerpt: Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 13-25)

7. Stimson, Hugh M. 1966. "A tabu word in the Peking dialect." Language 42.2:285-294.

8. Pulleyblank, Edwin G. 1995. Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar. Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press. (Excerpt: Chapters 1 through 4, pp.3-38)

9. T'sou, Benjamin K.Y. 1981. "A sociolinguistic analysis of the logographic writing system of Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9.1:1-19.

(More supplementary (i.e., optional) readings will be added during the quarter pending interest. Also check the list of "Books on Reserve" in the next section. The readings below are arranged alphabetically by author. An asterisk (*) after the author's name indicates that a copy of that reading is in the C681 crate in 208 Cunz Hall.)

1. Baxter, William H.* 1991. "Zhou and Han phonology in the Shijing." Studies in the Historical Phonology of Asian Languages, edited by William G. Boltz and Michael C. Shapiro. Amstermdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co. Pages 1-34.

2. Baxter, William H. 1992. A Handbook of Old Chinese. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (Excerpts: Chapter 2, "The Middle Chinese phonological system": 2.1 "The need for a new transcription system" and 2.2 "Major sources of evidence on Middle Chinese," pp.27-44; and Chapter 4, "Traditional research on Old Chinese rhyming," pp.139-174.)

3. Boltz, William G.* 1986. "Early Chinese writing." World Archaeology 17:420-436.

4. Chan, Marjorie K.M.* 1983. "Lexical diffusion and two Chinese case studies re-analyzed." Acta Orientalia 44:118-152.

5. Chan, Marjorie K.M.* 1984. "Initial consonant clusters in Old Chinese: evidence from sesquisyllabic words in the Yue dialects." Fangyan (1984) 4:300-313.

6. Chan, Marjorie K.M. and James H-Y. Tai. 1989. "A critical review of Norman's Chinese". Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association XXIV.1:43-61.

7. Chan, Marjorie K.M. and James H-Y. Tai. 1994. "From nouns to verbs: verbalization in Chinese dialects and East Asian languages." Sixth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. NACCL6. Two volumes, edited by Jose Camacho and Lina Choueiri. Los Angeles, CA: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Volume 2, pp. 49-74.

8. Chao, Yuen-ren (趙元任). 1931. "Fanqie yu ba zhong" (反切語八種) [Eight varieties of secret languages] Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 2:312-354. [BIHP = Lishi Yuyan Yanjiu Suo Jikan 歷史語言研究所集刊]

9. Chen, Ping. 1999. Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press. (Excerpts: Chapter 1, "Establishment and promotion of Modern Spoken Chinese", pp.7-33; Chapter 2.1 "Development of Standard Spoken Chinese before the late nineteenth century," pp.7-13; and Chapter 5, "Development and promotion of Modern Written Chinese," pp.67-90.)

10. Coblin, W. South.* 1996. "Marginalia on two translations of the Qieyun preface." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 24.1:85-97.

11. Downer, G.B.* 1959. "Derivation by tone-change in Classical Chinese." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 22:258-290.

12. Halliday, M.A.K.* 1981. "The origin and early development of Chinese phonological theory." Towards a History of Phonetics, edited by R.E. Asher and Eugenie J.A. Henderson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh U. Press. Pp.123-140.

13. Hashimoto, Mantaro J.* 1983. "'Pan', 'dish', 'drink' in Chinese: A case study of longitudinal and latitudinal developments of languages." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 11.1:1-35.

14. Hsu, Wen. 1995. "The first step toward phonological analysis in Chinese: fanqie." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 23.137-158.

15. Li, Fang-kuei.* 1973. "Languages and dialects of China." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1.1:1-13. (Originally published in The Chinesd Yearbook (1937), pp.59-65. Shanghai: Commercial Press.)

16. Li, Fang-kuei.* 1983. "Archaic Chinese." The Origins of Chinese Civilization, edited by David N. Keightley. Berkeley: U. of California Press. Pp.393-408.

17. Li, Rong (李榮).* 1982. "Lun 'ru' zi-de yin" (論 '入' 字的音) [A note on the word 'ru']. Fangyan (1982) 4.241-244.

18. Li, Rong (李榮).* 1989a. "Zhongguode yuyan he fangyan" (中國的語言和方言) [Languages and dialects in China] Fangyan (方言) 1989.3:161-167.

19. Li, Rong (李榮).* 1989b. "Hanyu fangyande fenqu" (漢語方言的分區) [The classification of the Chinese dialects] Fangyan (方言) 1989.4:241-259. (See also: Wurm et al. below.)

20. Li, Rong (李榮).* 1994. "Jinji-zi ju li" (禁忌字舉例) [Notes on tabu words in Chinese dialects]. Fangyan (1994) 3:161-169. (Also see: Beijing Daxue Zhongguo Yuyan Wenxuexi (北京大學中文語言文學系). 1995. Hanyu Fangyan Cihui. (漢語方言詞匯) Second edition. Beijing: Yuwen Chubanshe.)

21. Maspero, Henri. 1920. "Le dialecte de Tch'ang-Ngan sous les T'ang." Bulletin de l'Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient XX:1-124.

22. Norman, Jerry L. and W. South Coblin.* 1995. "A new approach to Chinese historical linguistics." Journal of the American Oriental Society 115.4:576-584.

23. Pulleyblank, Edwin. G.* 1973. "Some new hypotheses concerning word families." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1.1:111-125.

24. Pulleyblank, Edwin G.* 1998. "Qieyun and Yunjing: The essential foundation for Chinese historical linguistics." Journal of the American Oriental Society 118.2:200-216.

25. Serruys, Paul L-M. 1984.* "On the system of the pu shou 部首 in the Shuo-wen Chieh-tzu 說文解字." Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 55:651-753.

26. Ting, Pang-Hsin.* 1998. "Some thoughts on reconstructing the phonetic system of Ancient Chinese." Studia Linguistica Serica: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL III. July 14-16, 1994, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong), edited by Benjamin K. T'sou. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong. Pp.27-37.

27. Wang, Li (王力), Chief Compiler.* 1981. Gudai Hanyu (古代漢語) [Classical Chinese]. Revised edition. Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju. (Excerpt: Pp.1503-1534 on versification rules.)

28. Wang, William S-Y. (ed.) 1991. Languages and Dialects of China. Journal of Chinese Linguistics. Monograph Series Number 3. (on order)

29. Wurm, Stephen Adolphe, et al. (general editors). 1987. Language Atlas of China [Chinese title: Zhongguo Yuyan Ditu Ji (中國語言地圖集)]. Part 1. Hong Kong: Longman (Far East) Ltd. (Part 2 was published in 1991.)
    (This was an eight-year long bilingual (Chinese and English) joint research project between researchers at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Australian Academy of Humanities, Australia National U. Principal Chinese linguists from the two institutions leading the project were Li Rong and Benjamin T'sou respectively.)

30. Yuan Jiahua (袁家驊). 1989. Hanyu Fangyan Gaiyao (漢語方言概要). Second edition. Beijing: Wenzi Gaige Chubanshe.

31. Zhang, Huiying.* 1985. "Irregular sound change and taboo in Chinese." Computational Analyses of Asian and African Languages 24:227-231.

1. Baxter, William H. 1992. A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. [PL1201 .B284 1992]

2. Beijing Daxue. 1964. Hanyu Fangyan Cihui. (漢語方言詞匯) Beijing: Yuwen Chubanshe. Beijing: Wenzi Gaige Chubanshe. [PL1497 .P47] (Use in Library - EAS Reading Room)

3. Beijing Daxue. 1989. Hanyu Fangyin Zihui. (漢語方音字匯) Second edition. Beijing: Wenzi Gaige Chubanshe. [PL1201 .P4 1989 B c2] (Main Library has three copies.)

4. Beijing Daxue. 1995. Hanyu Fangyan Cihui. (漢語方言詞匯) Second edition. Beijing: Yuwen Chubanshe. (on order)

5. Chen, Pengnian et al. (陳彭年等). Guangyun. (廣韻). [On Reserve:] Jiaozheng Song Ben Guangyun. (校正宋本廣韻). Taipei: Iwen Yinshuguan. 1967. [PL1201 .K8 1967]

6. Chen, Ping. 1999. Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press. [PL1083 .C525 1999] (Check Reserve under "Chinese 580" if needed. Note that this book is one of the two required textbooks for Chinese 580. Extra copies were ordered at SBX in case students in C681 (and others) are interested in purchasing a copy of it.)

7. Dengyun Wu Zhong. (等韻五種) [The five rhyme tables are: Yunjing (韻鏡), Qiyinlue (七音略), Sisheng Dengzi (四聲等子), Qieyun Zhizhang Tu (切韻指掌圖), and Jingshi Zhengyin Qieyun Zhinan (經史正音切韻指南).] Taipei: Iwen Yinshuguan. [PL1201 .T4 1974]

8. Ding Shengshu (丁聲樹). 1976. Gu-Jin Ziyin Duizhao Shouce. (古今字音對照手冊) Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe. [PL1201 .T5 1976]

9. Duan, Yucai (段玉裁) (1735-1815, ed.). Shuowen Jiezi Zhu. (說文解字注) (1807) (Annotations of (Xu Shen's) Shuowen Jiezi). [1955 reprint/facsimile] Taipei: Iwen Yinshuguan. [PL1281 .H7 1815 A]

10. Hsueh, F.S. (Hsueh, Feng-sheng). 1975. Phonology of Old Mandarin. (= Janua Linguarum. Series Practica. Volume 179.) The Hague: Mouton. [P25 .J33 V179]

11. Karlgren, Bernhard. 1940. Grammata Serica: Script and Phonetics in Chinese and Sino-Japanese. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 12 (1940):1-471. Taipei: Chengwen Pub. Co. 1966. [PL1201 .K37 1966] (Use in Library - EAS Reading Room)

12. Karlgren, Bernhard. 1949. The Chinese Language: An Essay on its Nature. New York, Ronald Press Co. [PL1091 .K31 1949]

13. Karlgren, Bernhard. 1957. Grammata Serica Recensa. Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 32:1-332. [Reprint] [PL2245 .K3 1957 A]
    Chinese translation: Pan, Wuyun et al. (潘悟雲等) 1997. Hanwen Dian (xiuding ban) (漢文典 (修訂版)) Shanghai: Shanghai Cishu Chubanshe. (on order)

14. Liu, Wu-chi and Irving Yucheng Lo (eds.). 1975. Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry. Bloomington: Indiana U. Press. [PL2658.E3 S84 1975 B]
    (Note: The corresponding Chinese version, published in 1976 (Bloomington: Indiana U. Press), is available from other libraries. See the OhioLINK entry, part of the online OhioLINK Central Catalogue.)

15. Norman, Jerry. 1988. Chinese. Cambridge U. Press. [PL1075 .N67 1988]
    Chinese translation: Zhang, Huiying (張惠英) (trans.) 1995. Hanyu Gaishuo. (漢語概說) Beijing: Yuwen Chubanshe. (NB: The translation is useful since no Chinese characters are included in Jerry Norman's book. Note, however, that Prof. Norman may not necessarily agree with all portions of the translation of his book per se.) [PL1075 .N67142 1995]

16. Liu, James J.Y. 1962. The Art of Chinese Poetry. Chicago U. Press. [PL2307 .L57 1962 A c.2]

17. Pulleyblank, Edwin G. 1984. Middle Chinese: A Study in Historical Phonology . Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press. [PL1201 .P75 1984]

18. Pulleyblank, Edwin G. 1991. Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese, and Early Mandarin. Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press. [PL1081 .P84 1991]

19. Pulleyblank, Edwin G. 1995. Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar. Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press. [PL1101 .P84 1995]

20. Ramsey, S. Robert. 1987. The Languages of China. Princeton: Princeton U. Press. [PL1071 .R34 1987] (Check Reserve under "Chinese 580" if needed.)

21. Stimson, Hugh M. 1966. The Jongyuan In Yunn: A Guide To Old Mandarin Pronunciation. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University, Far Eastern Publications. [PL1201 .S74]

22. Stimson, Hugh M. 1976. Fifty-Five T'ang Poems: A Text in the Reading and Understanding of T'ang Poetry. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University, Far Eastern Publications. [PL2531 .S85]

23. Ulving, Tor. 1997. Dictionary of Old and Middle Chinese: Bernhard Karlgren's Grammata Serica Recensa Alphabetically Arranged. Goteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. (on order)

24. Wang, Li (王力). 1962. Hanyu Shi Lyu Xue. (漢語詩律學) Shanghai: Shanghai Jiaoyu Chubanshe. [PN1049 .C5 W3 1962]

25. Wang, Li (王力). 1982. Gudai Hanyu. (古代漢語) Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju. Volume 4 of four volumes. (Pages 1503-1534 on versification rules.) [PL1075 .W34 1983 V4]

26. Zhongguo Da Baike Quanshu: Yuyan Wenzi (中國大百科全書: 語言 文字). 1988. Volume 15. Beijing and Shanghai: Zhongguo Da Baike Quanshu Chubanshe. [EAS AE17 C57 V.15 A1] (Use in Library - EAS Reading Room)

27. Zhou, Deqing (周德清) (fl. 1314-1324) Zhongyuan Yinyun (中原音韻). (1324) (1970 reprint.) Taipei: Lantai Shuju. [PL1201 .C4317 C6]

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