Chinese (see also Cantonese and Mandarin)

Scope and Content

Notes from Gordon Downer on ancient Chinese language and literature, (18pp typescript) 'Comment reconstruire le chinois archaique', by Andre G. Haudricourt, (14pp) 1954; 'The eighth earthly branch in archaic Chinese and Tai', by Soren Egerod, (4pp) 1957; 'Derivation by tone-change in classical Chinese', by G. B. Downer, (33pp) 1959; 'The shift of meaning and grammatical function of the character ... in Buddhist texts', by K. P. K. Whitaker, (11pp) 1959; 'The Bon-Shio dialect of Hainan' by Mantaro Hashimoto (34pp) 1960; 'Studies in early Chinese grammar', (part 1), by E. G. Pulleyblank, (32pp) 1960; 'Bilabial and alveolar implosives in a South Chinese dialect', by Mantaro Hashimoto, (9pp) 1961; 'Voiceless lateral fricatives in Chinese' by Mantaro Hashimoto (18pp, Chinese script) 1962; 'A Buddhist spell', by K. P. K. Whitaker, (13pp + plates) 1963; 'An interpretation of the vowel systems of old Chinese and of written Burmese', by E. G. Pulleyblank, (21pp) 1963; 'The Chinese pseudo-translation of Arya-Sura's Jataka-Mala', by John Brough, (26pp) 1964; 'The Chinese name for the Turks', by E.G. Pulleyblank, (4pp) 1965; 'Historical linguistics' by Nicholas Cleaveland Bodman, (58pp) 1966; 'Les particularites de la grammaire chinoise', by Soren Egerod, (9pp) 1967; 'The rhyming categories of li ho (791-817)', by E.G. Pulleyblank, (25pp) 1968; "A course in Chinese for the BA course in Applied Language Studies", by Chin tsu Chen 1968; Draft seminar notes on the history of Chinese by Gordon Downer, with related correspondence 1968-76; 'Internal evidence for ancient Chinese palatal endings', by Mantaro J. Hashimoto, (40pp) 1970; 'Late middle Chinese', by E. G. Pulleyblank, (44pp) 1970; 'Late middle Chinese', (part 2), by E. G. Pulleyblank, (48pp) 1971; "Reconstruction of a new morphophonemic alternation in Proto-Chinese", by Benjamin K. T'sou, (handouts) 1971; "On the reconstruction of old Chinese based on modern dialect data", by Paul Fu-mien Yang, (13pp, typescript) 1971; "The Wuxiang connection", by W. L. Ballard, (24pp, typescript) 1971; "Old Chinese s- clusters, some dialect alternations and traces ofthe Sino-Tibetan s- causative", by Nicholas C. Bodman, (14pp, typescript) 1972; "Some further evidence regarding old Chinese -s and its time of disappearance", by E. G. Pulleyblank, (10pp, typescript) 1972; "The origins of late inflectional morphology in Chinese dialects: a preliminary investigation", by Stephen P. Barron, (35pp) 1972; "Causative constructions in Taiwanese", by Robert L. Cheng, (27pp, typescript) 1972; "Prefix ke- in modern Chinese dialects and proto-Chinese", by Paul Fu-mien, (14pp) 1972; "Reordering in diachronic syntax", by Benjamin K. T'sou, (16pp) 1972; "From morphology to syntax: developments in Chinese causative", by Benjamin K. T'sou, (26pp, typescript) 1972; 'The analysis of vowel systems' by E. G. Pulleyblank (23pp) 1972; "Cross-dialectal comparison: A case study and some theoretical considerations" (Sound patterns) by Matthew Chen, (32pp, typescript) 1972; 'Some further evidence regarding Old Chinese -s and its time of disappearance', by E. G. Pulleyblank, (6pp) 1973; "A proposed linguistic approach to the philological problems posed by the word der ... in classical Chinese", by John S. Cikoski, (19pp, typescript) 1973; "Last minute reply to Ted Pulleyblank", by W. L. Ballard, (5pp, typescript) 1973; "The ancient Chinese family NZ: a phonosemantic evaluation", by Gilbert W. Roy, (18pp, typescript) 1973; "Initial consonant clusters kl- in modern Chinese dialects and proto-Chinese", by Paul Fu-mien Yang, (17pp, typescript) 1973; "Late middle Chinese and southern dialects", by E. G. Pulleyblank, (29pp, typescript) 1973; "Developments of finals with nasal endings among Min dialects", by Kun Chang, (20pp, typescript) 1973; "Onthe relationship between the active and the passive in Chinese", by Chian-li Hsu, (14pp, typescript) 1973; "Ergative semantic space", by Kung-yi Kao, (66pp, typescript) 1973; "Assymetry in temporal and sequential clauses in Chinese", by Stephen W. Chan, (16pp, typescript) 1973; "Negation in Chinese", by Teng Shou-hsin, (32pp, typescript) 1973; "Tibetan evidence for the *-ps, *-ts and *-ks origin of part of the Chinese ch'u-sheng", by Nicholas C. Bodman, (5pp, typescript) 1974; "A historical syntax of the Chinese passives", by Chauncey C. Chu, (30pp, typescript, incomplete) 1974; "Chinese as a topic-prominent language", by Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson, (31pp, typescript) 1974; "Two baby-steps toward a characterization of the semantic system of classical Chinese", by John S. Cikoski, (5pp, typescript) 1974; "Constraints on preverbal adverbials in Chinese", by John Y. Hou, (23pp, typescript) 1974; "On the functions of place adverbials: a case study in Chinese", by James H-Y. Tai, (11pp, typescript) 1974; "The phonology and grammar of Skipants in Chinese", abstract of paper by Yuen Ren Chao, (4pp, typescript) 1975; "Prefix *s- in proto-Chinese", by Paul Fu-mien Yang, (12pp, typescript) 1975; "A comparative study of relative clauses in two Chinese dialects", by William R. Mathews, (21pp, typescript) 1975; "Problems in the Chinese resultative", by Timothy Light, (6pp, typescript) 1975; "Objective case and agentive case in classical Chinese", by Kung-yi Kao, (8pp, typescript) 1975; "Anglicization of Chinese morphology and syntax in the past two hundred years", by Feng-fu Teso, (17pp, typescript) 1975; 'The transcription of Sanskrit k and kh in Chinese', by E. G. Pulleyblank, (10pp) 1975; "Speculations on the history of Chinese and on tonogenesis" 1976; Relative chronology: three methods of reconstruction, by Matthew Y. Chen, (50pp) 1976; 'On the issue of word order in a synchronic grammar: a case against "movement transformations", by Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson, (10pp) 1976; "The structure of nominal classifier systems", by Benjamin K. T'sou, (31pp) 1976; "Archaic Chinese affixation patterns", (15pp,typescript) 1976; "Prefix *s- and *SKL- clusters in proto-Chinese", by Paul Fu-mien Yang, (31pp, typescript) 1976; "Old Chinese reflexes of Sino-Tibetan *-? and *-:k and related problems", by Nicholas C. Bodman, (7pp, typescript) 1976; 'Archaic Chinese', by Fang Kuei Li, (15pp) 1977; "Three models for writing reform in modern Chinese", by Benjamin K. T'sou, (33pp, typescript) 1977; 'Abruptness and gradualness in phonological change', by Edwin G. Pulleyblank, (10pp) 1978; "Old Chinese *-u and *-iw in the Shi-jing", by William H. Baxter, (4pp, typescript) 1978; "LIAP, LIAK, LIAT: concepts in linearity", by Gilbert W. Roy, (7pp, typescript) 1978; Typescript of J. Norman's "The varieties of Chinese", with related correspondence 1978-86; "Tones in the Wu dialect of Zhenhai: An acoustic description" by Phil Rose, (31pp typescript) 1979; "A new interpretation of the inner/outer contrast in the rhyme tables and its implication on middle Chinese phonology", by F. S. Hsweh, (12pp) 1979; "Studies in old Chinese rhyming", by William H. Baxter, (25pp, typescript) 1979; "Distinction des deux mediales de la division III de l'ancien chinois dans les documents en ecriture tibetaine", by Tokio Takata, (13pp, typescript) 1979; "IOG: Oscillation or 'give and take'", by Gilbert W. Roy, (19pp, typescript) 1979; "Traces of proto-Chinese bilabial prefixes in archaic and modern Chinese", by Paul Fu-mien Yang, (17pp, typescript) 1979; "Evidence for l and r medials in old Chinese", by Nicholas C. Bodman, (18pp, typescript) 1979; "Toishan affixal aspects", by Timothy Light, (9pp, typescript) 1979; "Toishan glossary project", by Timothy Light, (6pp, typescript) 1979; "Negation et modalite en chinois moderne", by Viviane Alleton, (18pp, typescript) 1979; "Negation and aspects in Chinese revisited", by Margaret S.C., (4pp, manuscript) 1979; "Adverbes en fonction modale", by Viviane Alleton, (23pp, typescript) 1980; "Structure and license in Chinese regulate d verse" by A. C. Graham, (17pp) 1980; "A slight offering on tone diffusion to stimulate debate", by W. L. Ballard, (6pp, typescript) 1980; "An additional note on middle Chinese den ti- labialization", by Edwin G. Pulleyblank, (6pp) 1980; "Chinese question forms and their meanings", by Robert L. Cheng, (42pp, typescript) 1980; "Relative clause formation in Chinese", by John Y. Hou, (22pp, typescript) 1980; "A latitudinal and longitudinal study of tones in the Chinese language" by Mantaro Hashimoto, (15pp, typescript) 1982; "Some aspects of tonal development in Chinese dialects", by Ting Pang-hsin, (16pp, typescript) 1982; 'Loanwords as evidence for old Chinese uvular initials', by E. G. Pulleyblank, (8pp) 1982; "Some evidence in the reconstruction of the Zhen rhyme category in old Chinese", by E. G. Pulleyblank, (7pp) 1982; "Middle Chinese reflexes of old Chinese final palatals, labial velars and uvulars", by Edwin G. Pulleyblank, (28pp, typescript) 1982; 'Voicing and tone register in Shanghai', by Michael Sherard, (6pp) 1982; "Summary of an acoustical analysis of selected Yangchow syllables" by Donald Sauvain, (6pp, typescript); "The altaicization of the Chinese tone system", by Mantaro J. Hashimoto, (4pp, typescript) 1983; 'Sprachen des Buddhismus in Zentralasien', by Klaus Rohrborn and Wolfgang Veenker, (30pp) 1983; 'The Chinese and their neighbours in prehistoric and early historic times', by E. G. Pulleyblank, (55pp) 1983; "The locative particles yu..., yu..., hu...", by E. G. Pulleyblank, (36pp, typescript), plus 12pp offprint (1986) 1983-86 "A Min substratum in the Wu dialects", by Ting Pang-hsin, (15pp, typescript) 1984; 'Functions and meanings of erl' by Walter Simon (24pp); "Some further evidence on the glottalization of the Chinese departing tone", by Laurent Sagart, (14pp) 1985; 'The theory of homology', by Li Hualin, (20pp) 1985; "The history and development of tonal systems and tone alternations in South China", by W. L. Ballard, (103pp, typescript) 1985; 'Some issues in CV phonology with reference to the history of Chinese', by Edwin G. Pulleyblank, (41pp) 1986; "CV phonology and diachronic change as illustrated in the history of Chinese", by Edwin G. Pulleyblank, (24pp, typescript) 1986; "Some remarks on differing correspondences in old Chinese assumed to represent different Chinese dialects", by Nicholas C. Bodman, (7pp, typescript) 1988; "The Princeton hypothesis twenty years later", by W. L. Ballard, (15pp, typescript) 1988; 'Middle Chinese: a response to some criticisms', by E. G. Pulleyblank, (11pp) 1988; "Six characters in search of a gesture", by Yau Shun-Chiu, (32pp, typescript) 1988; "From 'if' to 'must' in modern Chinese", by Halvor Eifring, (27pp, typescript) 1988; "Antonymous quadinominals in Chinese", by Chinfa Lien, (25pp, typescript) 1988; "Aspect and Aktionsart in Chinese: evidence from psycholinguistics", by Li Ping, (27pp, typescript) 1988; "Evolutionary processes of the tone values in the North-Eastern Jiang-Su dialects", by Ray Iwata (16pp) 1988; "A coding standard for Chinese phonological files", by Chin-Chuan Cheng, (11pp) 1988; 'Internationalizing the Chinese script: Quoyu romanization'; 'A sampling of Chungshan Hakka' by Soren Egerod, (17pp); 'The structure of the Chinese monosyllable in a Hunanese dialect (Changsha)', by J.R. Firth and B.B. Rogers (22pp); "A quantification of Chinese dialect affinity", by Chin-Chuan Cheng (10pp, typescript) "Lexical comparison as a criterion for Chinese dialect classification", by Elian Chuaqui-Numan, (25pp); 'The origins of the Chinese tonal sytem' by E. G. Pulleyblank; "Diminutives and tone sandhi", by Shaaji Hirata, (20pp, manuscript); "Syntactic harmonization: an explanation of word order change in Chinese", by Cheung Yat-shing, (22p, typescript); "Semantics and syntax of place adverbials in Chinese", (43pp,typescript); "Chinese question forms and their meanings", by Robert L. Cheung, (4pp, typescript); 'Some peculiarities of the complement of result in modern Chinese', by Wang Huan, (11pp); "Word classes according to Dragunov", by M. McCaskey, (12pp, typescript);'A note to Hanshu 65: biography of Dongfang Shuo, by Li Rong, (4pp) "The composition of models of speech in Chinese and contrasts with texts in the written tradition", by H. F. Simon, (36pp, typescript); "Typology of Chinese sentence structure", by Soren Egerod, (13pp, typescript); "The origin of the copula shih in Chinese", by Sian L. Yen, (21pp, typescript); "Sentence structure and discourse tactics in Chinese", by H. F. Simon, (48pp, typescript); "Negative question in Chinese", by Cheung Yat-shing, (12pp, typescript); "Sinitic and proto-Chinese", by Paul K. Benedict, (12pp, typescript); "The attrition of final consonants in Chinese", by Matthew Y. Chen, (6pp, typescript); "The Chinese si orgy", by Paul K. Benedict, (13pp, typescript); "The Chinese s- orgy: further adventures and misadventures", by Paul K. Benedict, (22pp, typescript); "Some random observations on Paul Benedict's: 'the Chinese s-orgy', by Nicholas C. Bodman, (3pp, typescript); "Relative chronology", by Matthew Y. Chen, (13pp, typescript); "The proto-Chinese final system and the ch'ieh-yun", by Kun Chang and Betty Shefts Chang, (26pp, typescript); "Chinese *s-nasal initials", by Betty Shefts and Kun Chang, (29pp, typescript); "Initial consonant clusters in old Chinese: some lexical evidence from the Zhongham dialect", by Marjorie K. M. Chan, (15pp, typescript); "Chinese cryptoglyphics", by Paul K.Benedict, (15pp, typescript); "Relational statement versus hierarchical, illustrated from ancient Chinese", by R. K. Sprigg, (4pp, typescript); "Southern Chinese dialects - the Tai connection", by Oi-kan Yue Hashimoto, (14pp, typescript); 'Some new hypotheses concerning word families in Chinese', by E. G. Pulleyblank, (15pp, typescript); 'Notes on the hp'ags-pa alphabet for Chinese', by E. G. Pulleyblank, (18pp); 'The reconstruction of archaic Chinese', by Walter Simon, (22pp); "Fact, theory and fantasy in Chinese historical phonology", by William L. Ballard, (32pp); "ST suffixed */n", by Paul K. Benedict, (2pp, typescript); "Dentilabialization in middle Chinese", by E. G. Pulleyblank, (31pp, typescript) "Old Chinese initial - and suffix -me", by L. G. Loffler, (68pp, typescript) "Some north-south dialect differences during latesix dynasties times", by R. A. Juhl, (17pp, typescript); "Some examples of colloquial pronunciation from the southern Liang dynasty", by E. G. Pulleyblank, (20pp, typescript); "On the negative wei... in archaic Chinese", by Sian L. Yen, (24pp, typescript); "The Shin-Ching rhyme categories - a new hypothesis", by E. G. Pulleyblank, (31pp) and 'Evidence for l and r medials in old Chinese and associated problems', by Nicholas C. Bodman, (21pp).

Access Information

Open