Sample syllabus of Chinese 882 from 1987-88 academic year, my first year at OSU.
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5 January 1988
STUDIES IN CHINESE HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY
Course: Chinese 882. Winter Quarter 1988.
Studies in Chinese Historical Phonology
5 Units. Tues. & Thurs. 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
173 MacQuigg Laboratory
Instructor: Marjorie Chan
Office Hours: Tues. 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Wed. 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Or by Appointment
Phone No.: 292-3619 (office)
Textbooks: E.G. Pulleyblank. 1984. Middle Chinese: A Study of Historical
Phonology. Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia
Press. (To be purchased at SBX when available.)
Jerry Norman. 1988. Chinese. New York: Cambridge University
Press. Ch. 1, 2, 8, 9. (To be purchased at SBX when available.
Ch. 1-2 xeroxed.)
Articles: F.S. Hsueh. 1980. "The phonemic structure of Pekinese Finals
and their R-suffixation." BIHP 51.3:491-514.
Others by Hsueh, Li, Chao, etc., to be announced later.
Books on A number of books have been placed on reserve and a few more
Reserve will be added during the course of the quarter. A list of the
in Main: books will be distributed in class next week.
Requirements: Class participation 15%
2 class assignments 20%
Term paper 65%
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100%
Term paper: Suggestions include:
1) The comparison of some particular phonological issue among
various Chinese phonologists (e.g. Hsueh, Pulleyblank, Dong,
Chou, Karlgren, Li, etc.),
2) Tracing the historical development of a Chinese dialect (the
modern reflexes of historical categories and their implications
with respect to different reconstructions.
Deadlines: Week 6, Thurs. A one-page abstract for the term paper.
Exam Week, Mon. Term paper.
Goals: A critical analysis of the historical phonology of Chinese, with
primary focus on the development of the language during the
Middle Chinese period. The course will include a study of the
relations of the various modern Chinese dialects to the
historical phonological categories.
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SYLLABUS: PRELIMINARY VERSION
WK. TUES. THURS.
1 Syllabus, aims, Intro. to general hist. ling.
Intro. to general hist. ling.
2 Intro. to hist. Chin. ling. Reading: Norman, Ch. 2.
Reading: Norman, Ch.1.
3 Background. Phonology of Pekingese
Reading: EGP, Ch. 1 Reading: EGP, Ch. 2
Hsueh (1980)
4 Late Middle Chinese
& Reading: EGP, Ch. 3
5 Reflexes to LMC categories
in modern Chinese dialects.
6 Dialect variation in North Sources of Early Middle Chinese
and Central China. Reading: EGP, Ch. 4
Reading: Norman, Ch. 8.
7 Early Middle Chinese
& Reading: EGP, Ch. 5.
8 Reflexes of EMC categories
in modern Chinese dialects.
9 Dialects of Southeast China. Other issues in historical
Reading: Norman, Ch. 9. Chinese phonology: lexical diffusion,
Old Chinese reconstructions, etc.
10 Class presentations Class presentations
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