Hyuk-Joon Kwon

This study aims at reconstructing the phonological development of the Middle Chinese(MC) Yu(遇) and Liu(流) Rhyme Groups from Old Chinese(OC)to MC, and revealing their historical strata reflected on Sino-Korean. Although the two rhyme groups partly share the same OC origin, i.e., the Hou Group(侯部, *-o), the sound value of each rhyme group in MC is different from each other. It is significant to study the process of phonological changes of them,and is also significant to study why Sino-Korean refle

This study is designed to discuss some problems related with initials in Liu Xi's Shiming which is a collection of "paranomastic glosses (聲訓)" of the Eastern Han time. There have been several studies about the phonological system of the Shiming and I find some matters in the predecessors' studies in question. I study whether zhang series (章組) words, yi initial (以母) words, and xie initial (邪母) words preserved their phonological forms of Pre-Qin Chinese, and what types of consonant clusters as ini

This study is designed to discuss whether zhang series[章組] words, yi initial[以母] words, and xie initial[邪母] words have been palatalized into affricates or fricatives in Zheng Xuan’s sound glosses of the Eastern Han. South Coblin in A Handbook of Eastern Han Sound Glosses, initially asserted that Zheng Xuan’s sound glosses reflected the palatalization of the initials in question according to their frequent contacts with jing series which were believed to be affricates[*TS-type] in Eastern Han. Ho

This study is designed to discuss whether zhang series[章組] words, yi initial[以母] words, and xie initial[邪母] words, which we will simply address as “dental initials”, have been palatalized into affricates or fricatives in Baihutongyi and Fengsutongyi of the Eastern Han. South Coblin, in his work A Handbook of Eastern Han Sound Glosses initially asserted that Paranomastic Glosses in those documents reflected the palatalization of the initials in question. He believed that palatalization of the den

This study is designed to reconstruct a phonological system of finals in the Yinsheng rimes(陰聲韻) as reflected in the Sound Glosses and rimes of Guo Pu(郭璞), a scholar of the Jin Dynasty(晉代). His sound glosses are mostly of the direct phonetic notaions(直音法) and the fanqie spellings(反切注音法), which are believed to have represented one of phonological systems in the era between Old Chinese(OC) and Middle Chinese(MC). Unfortunately, however, both of the methods had revealed their own limitations. The s

This study is designed to reveal the types of “Initial Consonant Clusters”(“clusters” hereafter) as reflected in “the Shuowen Duruo[讀若] Glosses”. As the time span of Old Chinese[OC] covers presumably more than 1,000 years, we will have to assume that there had been a number of phonological changes within the period. This seems to be the case with the cluster system, which would reduce in its types and numbers over time. We have some evidence against varieties of clusters existing in the pre-Qin

There are only a few studies conducted on the phonological systems of transitional periods between Old Chinese [OC] and Middle Chinese [MC]. We mostly ascribe this to the fact that the materials which tell much about these periods are only sparsely found. Therefore, they provide us with only a handful of suggestions about the phonology of the periods. But we have some materials which guarantee us to establish a single phonological system of any specific stage standing between OC and MC. These he

這篇文章探討韓國漢字音通攝主要反映着哪個階段的漢語音系。從外表上看, 『切韻』通攝各韻與韓國漢字音“옹(용) (j)oŋ” : “웅(융) (j)uŋ”型之間的對應關係顯得沒有規律性。我們着眼於這一點, 在前人研究成果的基礎上, 再加上筆者的見解而對以前的看法作了修正。我們首先對現有的一些較有代表性的說法進行商榷之後, 將各種說法的缺點和可取的優點分列出來了。我們又對通攝從上古漢語到中古漢語的音系演變過程與韓國漢字音作了比較, 從而指出了韓國漢字音通攝主要反映的時間層次。 本文將東韻一等、冬韻、鍾韻、唇音字在韓國漢字音裏作“옹(옥) o{ŋ，k}”的、東韻三等字作“웅(욱) u{ŋ，k}”的當作主要硏究對象而進行討論的。它們都與中唐慧琳『一切經音義』系統極爲一致。這說明它們所反映的主要層次就是中唐時期。有一些鍾韻字作“웅 uŋ”型, 這都與幾種緊在『慧琳』之後或在『慧琳』同時代所成的敦煌漢藏對音資料代表的音系幾乎一致。從而可說, 韓國漢字音通攝大部分很可能反映着在第9世紀初或者在比此時晚一點的時期所形成的新標準語系統, 這一個新語言系統應該是在西北方言的基礎上形成的。有一些鍾韻三等齒頭

In this study we reconstruct the phonological system of initials as reflected in the Sound Glosses of Guo Pu[郭璞] of the Jin Dynasty[晉代]. His Sound Glosses include the direct phonetic notaions[直音法] and the fanqie spellings[反切注音法]. We have examined more than 1,600 cases of his glosses to find out which stage his initial system was placed in between Old Chinese[OC] and Middle Chinese[MC]. The result of each predecessor is not showing exactly the unified trends with regard to the Guo’s initial syste

Phonology of Guo Pu[郭璞] in the Jin Dynasty[晉代] is known to reflect that of a certain transitional point placed between Old Chinese[OC] and Middle Chinese[MC]. The main goal of this study is to find out how far phonology of Yangsheng Rime[陽聲韻] has progressed from OC or how far it is away from MC in his time. We take up his massive number of sound glosses and some extant rimes as main materials of our study. His sound glosses are invested with the fanqie spellings[反切注音法] and the direct phonetic no

The purpose of this study is to establish the phonological system of finals[韻母] for each nasal-ending rime based on the Xu Miao[徐邈]’s sound glossess recorded in the Jingdian Shiwen[≪經典釋文≫]. As the Xu’s phonological system is situated in the transitional period between Old Chinese[OC] and Middle Chinese[MC], it is crucial to elucidate its relationship with both OC and MC in a coherent manner. This study presents its arguments based on OC and MC phonology as proposed by Zheng-Zhang Shang Fang. Add

This study is designed to reconstruct phonology of Rusheng[入聲] as reflected in the Guo Pu[郭璞]’s glosses and rimes, which will be employed as main clues to set up his phonological system. Guo Pu(AD 276—324) has left a massive number of sound glosses to some exegetic and literary works, and a handful of rimes in his extant verses. His glosses include the fanqie spellings[反切法] and the direct phonetic notaions[直音法] which, along with his rimes, are claimed to signal a certain phonology of Jin Dynasty