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Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan Dept. of E. Asian Lang. & Lit. The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 |
| COURSE & CREDITS: | Chinese 681. History of the Chinese Language. Call Number: 04360-6 5 credits U G |
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| PREREQUISITES: | Chinese 680, or permission of instructor (Prerequisite for C680: Chinese 103 or equivalent, or permission of instructor) |
| TIME: | M W 3:30 - 5:18 p.m. |
| PLACE: | 209 Central Classroom Building* * with computers, multimedia, and internet connection |
| OFFICE HOURS: | W 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., or by appointment Office: 366 Cunz Hall Tel: 292-3619 (292-5816 for messages, 292-3225 for faxes) E-mail: chan.9@osu.edu |
| C681 COURSE PAGE: | people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/c681.htm |
| MC's Home Page: MC's ChinaLinks: |
people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9 ChinaLinks.osu.edu |
Main Library Reserve:
Reference books will be placed on Reserve in Main Library as needed.
Check OSU Libraries' Course Reserves (by Prof/TA or Course) for an
online list of books placed on Reserve for Chinese 681, as well as for Chinese 882
(Studies in Chinese Historical Phonology),
which is offered this quarter as well.
Reference books will be placed on Reserve in Main Library as needed.
(Note: Reserved materials for a given course are listed
online for the current quarter only. Also, search for OSU's web e-journal articles at
OSU Journals Online.
Some e-journal articles may be at Cambridge Journals Online or
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive.
)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
COURSE OJECTIVES
COURSE CONTENT
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES
[1] These may be a combination of short reactions papers and written responses to specific questions from the instructor based on the readings. The assignments should be submitted in digital format (DOC, RTF, NJX, PDF, HTML, or some other format) that will be internally-linked for class use. A hardcopy is optional, except in cases where handwritten material is submitted. Files are to be uploaded by the students to their personal web subdirectory if they have one; otherwise submitted to the instructor for uploading.[2] Prepare hardcopy handouts or transparencies, or prepare a digital file in PPT/PPS format (for a PowerPoint presentation/show).
[3] A hardcopy is optional, but practical if appendices are included that would otherwise require scanning of each page of the appendix.) All homework assignments and term papers are to be placed online and will be internally-linked for class use.
DISABILITY SERVICES
Students with disabilities that have been certified by the Office for Disability Services will be appropriately accommodated, and should inform the instructor as soon as possible of their needs. The Office for Disability Services is located in 150 Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Avenue (Tel: 292.3307. TDD: 292.0901).ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT.
Students are advised to adhere to The Ohio State University's Code of Student Conduct, with particular reference here to "Academic misconduct," defined as "[a]ny activity that tends to compromise the academic integrity of the university, or subvert the educational process." (For examples, see section 3335-23-04 Prohibited conduct.)
GRADING
| Attendance and class participation | 30% | Homework assignments (3) | 30% | Term paper project (all phases) | 40% | ------ | 100% |
Note: This is a preliminary schedule.
Readings may be be subject to change after the quarter begins.Classes are held on Mondays and Wednesdays.
WEEK 1 |
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| 1/6 | Introduction and Orientation |
1/8 | Highlights in the History of Chinese Linguistics
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WEEK 2 |
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| 1/13 | Language Contact, Migration, and Dialect Development
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1/15 | Middle Chinese
屋 wū 'house' & 沃 wò 'irrigate' |
WEEK 3 |
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| 1/20 | Martin Luther King's Day - no class
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1/22 | Middle Chinese (cont'd)
Chen (1999, Ch.2.1) Coblin (1996) |
WEEK 4 |
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| 1/27 | Old Chinese
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1/29 | Old Mandarin
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| Saturday, 1 February 2003.
Happy Chinese New Year (Year of the Ram)! |
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WEEK 5 |
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| 2/3 | Linguistic Structure & Chinese Poetry
(part of MC's ChinaLinks1) (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).) |
2/5 | Taboos & Language Change
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WEEK 6
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| 2/10 | The Classical & Literary Languages
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2/12 | Rise & Dev. of the Written Vernacular
select references. |
WEEK 8 |
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| 2/24 | Dialect Classification; Dialectal Variation in North and Central China
(See also: Language Atlas of China) (part of MC's ChinaLinks3; incl. links to online databases for Chinese Dialects)
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2/26 | Dialects of the Southeast
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WEEK 10 |
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| 3/10 | Student Presentations |
3/12 | Student Presentations |
WEEK 11: EXAM WEEK |
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| Term Paper Deadline Monday, 17 March 2003, 5:00 p.m. (Note: Request for extension must be made by Friday, 14 March 2003.) |
For reference: Glossary, tables, charts, etc.
Created 17 March 1996 for Spring Quarter 1996. Most recent major revision: 3 January 2003 for Winter Quarter 2003.
URL: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/c681-w03.htm
(Excerpt: Chapters 1 through 4, pp. 3-38)
Some of the following references and supplementary (i.e., optional) readings include call numbers. Also search our libraries'
online catalogue under SUBJECT for Chinese Language,
Chinese
Language - History, Chinese Language - Dialects,
etc.
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.
[PL1465 .K37142 1997] (Main Stacks), [PL1465 .K37142 1997 c.2] (Use in Library - EAS Reading Room)
(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.)
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]
(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.)
(Links and online resources specifically for historical Chinese linguistics will be provided during the quarter as needed.
In the meantime, check out links in some of my other webpages.)
My website with one main page and four satellite pages containing annotated links to over six hundred
websites pertaining to on-line resources on Chinese studies:
search engines, on-line book vendors, culture, language, e-texts, netnews, web radio/TV, software,
linguistics, conferences, etc.
There are also links to general linguistics (esp. phonetics and phonology), and to web-authoring tools
and other internet resources.
Word Lists and Online Glossaries/Dictionaries
(my links (now part of my ChinaLinks.osu.edu site) to online and downloadable Chinese word lists, frequency lists, dictionaries, etc.)
Some web-accessible articles, online collections of gender-related course syllabi, etc.
Contains readings and references that may provide an additional source for references, such as my
graduate course, Modern Chinese Dialects, and my seminars,
Chinese 882: Studies in Chinese Historical Phonology and
Chinese 889: Databases and Corpora for Chinese Linguistic Research (Wi 2000).

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