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1、LANGUAGEANDLINGUISTICS1.2:257-267,2000BookReview:TheRootsofOldChineseAxelSchuesslerWartburgCollegeTheRootsofOldChinese,byLaurentSagart.JohnBenjamins:AmsterdamandPhiladelphia1999.Hbxii,272pp.US$85.00.ISBN9027236909(Eur.)/1556199619(USA)[A.Schuessler]Sagart’sverytopic,Ol
2、dChinesemorphology,iscontroversial.ThemonosyllabicnatureofChinesemakesmorphologicalderivationalmechanismsfarfromself-evident,andanOldChinese(OC)reconstructedmonosyllable,evenwithaninitialconsonantcluster,issocompactthatsomeskepticallinguistsrejecttheideaofsegmentalmorp
3、hologyinOCasamatterofprinciple.OthersapproachChineselikeanyothernaturalhumanlanguageonthepremisethatitisimpossibletoconceiveofalanguagewhoselexiconisaheapofthousands,tensofthousands,ofindividualwordswhichcannotbegeneticallygroupedandreducedtoamoremanageableandintelligi
4、blenumberofetymaandroots.One’sattitudecorrelatesrathertransparentlywithone’snativelanguage.ThusitwastheFrenchscholarMasperowhopioneeredtheinquiryintoOCsegmentalmorphology,particularlyprefixes,andHaudricourtwhosuggestedthattonesderivefromearliersyllablefinalsegmentalpho
5、nemeswhichcouldhavemorphologicalfunctions.Inthebookunderreview,Sagartcontinuesinthistradition.Theworkistosomeextentasynthesisofproposalswhichhepublishedinrecentyearsinarticlesandconferencepapers.Thebodyofthetext(29chapters)isfollowedbylistsandindices:alistofreferences(
6、216-232);AppendixA:Chinesechronology(i.e.Table29)onp.233;AppendixB:AconvenientlistofSagart’sOldChinese(OC)reconstructions(235-242);indexofChinesecharacters(243-249);andageneralindex(250-255).Theindicesareabitoff,e.g.forq"#妻thecharacterindexreferstopp.171,172,butinreali
7、tytheoccurrencesareonpp.173-174;or‘Hanriver’inthegeneralindexrefersthereadertop.178,butapparentlytheoccurrenceonp.176wasintended.Ssetshimselfathreefoldtask(p.4):(a)identifyOCaffixalprocessesandtheirfunctions,and(b)integratetheunderstandingoftheOCaffixalmorphologyintoaA
8、xelSchuesslercoherentsystemofphonologicalreconstruction(discussionsthroughoutchs.1-14);(c)illustrateandtesthisideasth
