世纪工程——语言的连续性

The Project of the Century:On the Continuity of the Language

运用历史比较法来考求《诗经》时代以来的汉语语音史,使之具有语音发展演变的连续性,需要历史语言学、汉语音韵学、汉语方言学、音系学和语音学做基础学科。这个工作有三个重心：《切韵》本身,《切韵》与后代韵图,《切韵》与《诗经》关系。语言的连续性关切的是：如何使文献材料发潜德之幽光,使方言材料也能虎虎生风。上述几门学科交织,文献材料与方言材料并重,语言的连续性是一道漫漫长路。

It requires the historical linguistics,Chinese Historical Phonology,Chinese dialectology,phonology and phonetics as the fundamental disciplines to explore the history of Chinese phonetics since the era of the Book of Songs(《诗经》)with the continuity of phonetic evolution by means of the historical comparative method.This project has three key issues:Qieyun(切韵),the relation between Qieyun and later time tables,and the relation between Qieyun and the Book of Songs.What the continuity of language concerns is how to make full use of textual materials and dialectic materials.There is a long way to go to study the continuity of language,integrating the above five disciplines and combining textual materials and dialectic materials.