Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese: A Companion to Grammata Serica Recensa

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009. First ed., first printing (full number line). Small quarto with green cloth boards; xxiv, tables; 421 pages; index; 26 cm Near fine. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780824832643

No jacket. "Bernhard Kalrgren's Archaic Chinese (= Old Chinese, OC) as presented in his standard work Grammata Serica Recensa (GSR) of 1957 has long been outdated. This present manual is an attempt to update GSR with a relatively simple "Minimal Old Chinese" (OCM, for OC-Minimal) which incorporates those features on which there is a broad agreement among investigators today. Though this manual can be thought of as a Grammata Serica Recensa update, I will refer to it as Grammata Serica Companion (GSC) for short." --Preface by A. Schuessler. Contents: Approaches to the history of Chinese. Middle Chinese and the Qièyùn. Old Chinese: phonetic series. Old Chinese through internal reconstruction. Old Chinese through the Xiesheng system. Minimal old Chinese: principles and criteria. Later Han Chinese. Han period sources on phonology. Interpretations of irregular phonetic compounds.