摘要
汉语史上的“深摄结构”是一个已经消失的地平线。它的原始面貌由四个支柱组成:开口一、三等(em,im),合口一、三等(um,ium)。这个结构的时代纵深应在一千四百年以前。到了公元601年左右,两根支柱(em,ium)先行崩塌,散落于野,隐名埋姓,足不出户。另外两个支柱,一个(im)屹立不摇,成为后世深摄结构的中流砥柱;另一个(um)琵琶别抱,踏入名门豪宅,从此讳莫如深。
There once existed four finals in the Pre-Qieyun（切韵） Chinese, namely -im, -em, -ium, -um. The first three of these had assumably merged into -im in the Qieyun（切韵） dictionary （Qin category）--undergoing a kind of sound change historical linguists call ＂lotacism＂seen in Ancient Greek. The last final （-um） has gone through a two-stage vowel lowering, first from -um to -om and then from -om to -am. Implications from these developments are many-fold and the most important of them is that rhyme category, division and rhyme-group represent three stages of final development in Chinese historical phonology, therefore they should not be collapsed into one plane as many in the twentieth century had assumed them to be.
出处
《语言研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2007年第1期1-11,共11页
Studies in Language and Linguistics
关键词
比较法
文献法
爱欧塔化
韵
等
摄
the comparative method
written records
Iotacism
Yun（韵）
Deng（等）
She（摄）
