On Old Turkic Consonanticism and Vocalic Divisions of Acute Consonants in Medieval Hàn Phonology

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Foreword vi
3. Table of contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Rime-Tables in Chinese Reconstruction
6. On the Principle of the Four Grades 37
7. The Four Grades 47
8. On Old Turkic Consonanticism and Vocalic Divisions of Acute Consonants in Medieval Hàn Phonology 59
9. The Qièyùn System ‘Divisions’ as the Result of Vowel Warping 83
10. Part II: The History of Rime Table Texts and Reconstruction
11. Reflections on the Shouwen Fragments 99
12. Zhāng Línzhī on the Yùnjìng 123
13. Simon Schaank and the Evolution of Western Beliefs About Traditional Chinese Phonology 151
14. Part III: Rime Tables as Descriptive Tools
15. How Rime-Book Based Analyses Can Lead Us Astray 171
16. Modern Chinese and the Rime Tables 183
17. Common Dialect Phonology in Practice. 189
18. Some Composite Phonological Systems in Chinese 209
19. Common Dialectal Chinese 233
20. Appendix I 255
21. Appendix II 265
22. Bibliography 303
23. Index of Biographical Names 327
24. General Index 333