"Eat", "eclipse" and "adorn": cognates in Chinese
This essay addresses the need for a radical departure in the making of Chinese-English dictionaries. What is notably missing from current dictionaries, as well as from serious western works in Chinese linguistics, such as Karlgren's Grammata Serica, is the ability to cross reference the key wor...
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| description | This essay addresses the need for a radical departure in the making of Chinese-English dictionaries. What is notably missing from current dictionaries, as well as from serious western works in Chinese linguistics, such as Karlgren's Grammata Serica, is the ability to cross reference the key words and synonyms used in the Chinese lexicographic sources. This essay particularly attempts to demonstrate the importance of tracing the semantics of a word family by examining the trail of synonyms and reformulating the underlying semantics accordingly. Additionally, this essay stresses the importance of understanding and using traditional Chinese lexicographic sources. Computer databases offer a convenient means for entering Chinese synonyms and definitions in a romanized ASCII format, along with easy and quick access to them. The Old and Middle Chinese forms used here are a proposed "logical" and ASCII substitution for Karlren's ad hoc and diacritical-laden "reconstruction". |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1793282024-07-29T02:37:32Z "Eat", "eclipse" and "adorn": cognates in Chinese Goertzen, Stanley Arts and Humanities This essay addresses the need for a radical departure in the making of Chinese-English dictionaries. What is notably missing from current dictionaries, as well as from serious western works in Chinese linguistics, such as Karlgren's Grammata Serica, is the ability to cross reference the key words and synonyms used in the Chinese lexicographic sources. This essay particularly attempts to demonstrate the importance of tracing the semantics of a word family by examining the trail of synonyms and reformulating the underlying semantics accordingly. Additionally, this essay stresses the importance of understanding and using traditional Chinese lexicographic sources. Computer databases offer a convenient means for entering Chinese synonyms and definitions in a romanized ASCII format, along with easy and quick access to them. The Old and Middle Chinese forms used here are a proposed "logical" and ASCII substitution for Karlren's ad hoc and diacritical-laden "reconstruction". Published version 2024-07-29T02:37:32Z 2024-07-29T02:37:32Z 1992 Journal Article Goertzen, S. (1992). "Eat", "eclipse" and "adorn": cognates in Chinese. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 15(2), 115-125. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.15.2.06 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179328 10.32655/LTBA.15.2.06 2 15 115 125 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1992 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Arts and Humanities Goertzen, Stanley "Eat", "eclipse" and "adorn": cognates in Chinese |
| title | "Eat", "eclipse" and "adorn": cognates in Chinese |
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| title_short | "Eat", "eclipse" and "adorn": cognates in Chinese |
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