Georg Orlandi
Biographic Data
| ID | 698437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georg Orlandi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georg |
| FAMILY NAME | Orlandi |
| SIGNATURE | ORLANDI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Italian School of East Asian Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5756-4769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
All Crises are Unhappy in Their Own Way: The Role of Societal Instability in Shaping the Past
Societal “crises” are periods of turmoil and destabilization in sociocultural, political, economic, and other systems, often accompanied by violent power struggles, and sometimes significant changes in social structure. The extensive literature analyzing societal crises has concentrated on a relatively small sample of well-known cases (such as the fall of the Roman Empire), emphasizing separate aspects of these events as potential causes or consi…
The Birth of a Field: Joshua Marshman and the Beginning of Systematic Transcriptional/Reconstructive Studies on Chinese Historical Phonology
This article evaluates the pioneering works on Chinese historical phonology by Joshua Marshman (1768–1837), who is routinely credited as the first scholar to have produced a romanisation of the Chinese language for English speakers. This article seeks to demonstrate that Marshman's transcriptional/reconstructive approach has led to an advancement in the field of Chinese historical phonology mainly on two aspects: (i) it led to the establishment o…
On the Notion of “Vowel” and “Consonant” in Chinese Linguistic Tradition: On the Breakdown of Syllables in Chinese Historical Linguistics and the Four Grades of Rime Tables
The present article seeks to investigate the notion of vowels and consonants in the Chinese linguistic tradition, which developed independently of Western linguistic traditions, despite being influenced by the phonetic science of India. In particular, this study seeks to discuss the questions of (1) how traditional phonologists in China had split the syllable into smaller units, (2) what was the nature of the units, and (3) whether Chinese phonol…
On the four grades / four calls of Chinese rime tables
The present paper seeks to discuss and clarify the notions of 'Grades' and 'Calls' of traditional Chinese rime tables, which are commonly related to the presence or absence of glides, and continue to be taken as a basis for reconstructing vocalic and semi-vocalic portions of the post-initial elements in medieval and pre-medieval Chinese syllables. It is argued that, based on the discussions of Grades/Calls by Chinese scholars of the sixteenth thr…
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On the four grades / four calls of Chinese rime tables
The present paper seeks to discuss and clarify the notions of 'Grades' and 'Calls' of traditional Chinese rime tables, which are commonly related to the presence or absence of glides, and continue to be taken as a basis for reconstructing vocalic and semi-vocalic portions of the post-initial elements in medieval and pre-medieval Chinese syllables. It is argued that, based on the discussions of Grades/Calls by Chinese scholars of the sixteenth thr…
The Birth of a Field: Joshua Marshman and the Beginning of Systematic Transcriptional/Reconstructive Studies on Chinese Historical Phonology
This article evaluates the pioneering works on Chinese historical phonology by Joshua Marshman (1768–1837), who is routinely credited as the first scholar to have produced a romanisation of the Chinese language for English speakers. This article seeks to demonstrate that Marshman's transcriptional/reconstructive approach has led to an advancement in the field of Chinese historical phonology mainly on two aspects: (i) it led to the establishment o…
On the Notion of “Vowel” and “Consonant” in Chinese Linguistic Tradition: On the Breakdown of Syllables in Chinese Historical Linguistics and the Four Grades of Rime Tables
The present article seeks to investigate the notion of vowels and consonants in the Chinese linguistic tradition, which developed independently of Western linguistic traditions, despite being influenced by the phonetic science of India. In particular, this study seeks to discuss the questions of (1) how traditional phonologists in China had split the syllable into smaller units, (2) what was the nature of the units, and (3) whether Chinese phonol…
All Crises are Unhappy in Their Own Way: The Role of Societal Instability in Shaping the Past
Societal “crises” are periods of turmoil and destabilization in sociocultural, political, economic, and other systems, often accompanied by violent power struggles, and sometimes significant changes in social structure. The extensive literature analyzing societal crises has concentrated on a relatively small sample of well-known cases (such as the fall of the Roman Empire), emphasizing separate aspects of these events as potential causes or consi…
History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · China (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Hard rime (2 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (2 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (2 works) · Literature (2 works)