著者

平山 久雄

出版者

東洋文庫

雑誌

東洋学報 = The Toyo Gakuho

巻号頁・発行日

vol.49, no.1, pp.42-68, 1966-06

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We divide the labial and gutteral syllables with the medial /-i-/ of Ancient Chinese into three classes; (The phonemic interpretation is prof. Mineya’s. cf. Gengo Kenkyu 22/23 and 31) class A: syllables with the front vowel /a/ or /e/ and with /j/ as the palatalizing element of initials. class B: syllables with the front vowel /a/ or /e/ but without /j/. class C: syllables with the back vowel /ɑ/ or /ʌ/,There can be found in the fanch‘iehs of Ch‘iehyün a kind of selection between the resultant word and the upper ch‘ieh word concerning the classes to which they belong, i.e. the class of the resultant word A B C the class of the upper ch‘ieh words AorC BorC CAs these selections are quite precise, it is possible to use them as a criterion to decide the phonemic values of the rimes 蒸職 and 之 which remain yet unsettled. The results we have obtained are as follows; i) The rimes 蒸職 had the values of /-ieŋ, -iek, -iuek/ (class B) under the labial initials, the gutteral initials of hok’ou and the retroflex initials (正歯音二等), while under the remaining conditions they had the values of /-iʌŋ, -iʌk, -iuʌk/ as have been assumed before. ii) The rime 之 had the value of /-iʌɯ/ (the phoneme /ɯ/ is newly assumed to interpret this rime.), the phonetic value of which might be [-iěɩ] or [-iɩ].The reconstructions mentioned above are also supported by the study of fanch’iehs contained in the Tunhuang fragments of Maoshiyin (毛詩音), and by the regularity of correspondence to Archaic Chinese.