Word Families
Résumé
In the introduction to his Word families in Chinese (1934:1), B. Karlgren wrote: "it stands to reason that Chinese does not consist of so and so many thousands of independent monosyllables, none of them cognate to any others; in Chinese, as in all other languages, the words form families, groups of cognate words formed from one and the same primary stem". In the same text, Karlgren also articulated the notion that in comparing Chinese with related languages, word stems, not words per se, are the appropriate objects of comparison. Karlgren's Word Families assembled sets of words which resembled one another more or less closely in both Karlgren's reconstructed Old Chinese pronunciation and in meaning: for instance xíng 行, Karlgren's *g'ăng 'to walk, to go'; huáng 徨, Karlgren's *g'wâŋ 'to go to and fro'; wáng 往, Karlgren's *gi̭ wang 'to walk, go'; jiē
Domaines
Linguistique
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