The Evidence for Chinese *-r (古漢語 *-r 尾音的證據)

Abstract

In 1989 Starostin proposed that Old Chinese had a final *-r that later changed to - n (and sometimes - j ). Baxter & Sagart subsequently incorporated Starostin’s proposal in their 2014 Old Chinese reconstructions. This essay attempts to assemble the evidence for Old Chinese final *-r and to elaborate an explicit notation for the relative strength of this evidence for reconstructing an *-r in particular words. 1 斯塔羅斯金（1989）提出古漢語存在 -r 尾音的看法,認為這個尾音後來演變為 -n（在有的情況下是 -j）。白一平、沙加爾（2014a）在他們新近的古音構擬中接受了這一看法。本文擬搜集古漢語 -r 尾音的證據，詳細闡述這些證據在特殊詞語中構擬 -r 尾音的重要作用。(This article is in English.)