周德清不是“最小对立”理论的创始人

Zhou Deng-qing(周德清) Isn’t the Founder of the Theory of “The Minimal Opposites”

冯蒸先生认为《中原音韵·正语作词起例》第 2 1条是“让人们搞清《中原音韵》的音位系统的” ,并根据宁继福先生的构拟 ,提出周德清是“最小对立”理论的创始人的说法。本文从《中原音韵》的写作目的及《起例》的所谓“辨似”所透露的信息等方面分析 ,指出那只是为方言区的人“正音”的材料 ,而《蒙古字韵》则说明这些辨似字之间的对立不全是“最小对立” ,因而周德清不是“最小对立”理论的创始人。

Feng Zheng(冯蒸) thinks that Zhengyu Zuoci Qili(正语作词起例) is going to make everyone understand the phoneme system of Zhongyuan Yinyun(中原音韵), and he points out that Zhou De-qing(周德清) is the founder of the theory “the minimal opposites” based on Ning Ji-fu’s(宁继福) reconstruction. In fact, judging from the writing aim of Zhongyuan Yinyun(中原音韵) and the information of differentiation of Zhengyu Zuoci Qili(正语作词起例), Qili(起例) is merely the materal to regular the pronunciation of people from dialect regions. And according to Mongolian ziyun(蒙古字韵), these “opposites” of similar words are not all minimal opposite pair. Therefore, Zhou De-qing(周德清) isn’t the founder of the theoty of “the minimal opposites”.