W South Coblin

Biographic Data

ID706606
NAMEW South Coblin
GIVEN NAMESW South
FAMILY NAMECoblin
SIGNATURECOBLIN W S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Iowa
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX2

  • The Language of the Sangleys

    W South CoblinARTICLEHistoriographia Linguistica2012References: 2

    Preview this article: The Language of the Sangleys: A Chinese vernacular in missionary sources of the seventeenth century, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/hl.39.1.11cob-1.gif

  • Phonological Notes on a Variety of Eighteenth Century Standard Chinese

    W South CoblinARTICLEMonumenta Serica2007

    The Archives des Missions Etrangeres de Paris (hereafter: AMEP) hold a manuscript entitled Dictionarium Sinico-Latinum and catalogued as V. 1149-03 Dictionnaire Chinois-Latin.1 The work is anonymous and undated but is written in a typically seventeenth or eighteenth century hand. It is generically a zidian ^ A, in that it is primarily a lexicon of Chinese characters. It is arranged according to the Kângxi jM$$ radical system. Each individual char…

  • Robert Morrison and the Phonology of Mid-Qīng Mandarin

    Open AccessW South CoblinARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…2003Cited by: 1

    Robert Morrison (1782–1834; Chinese name: Maˇ Liˇxùn) was the London Missionary Society's first representative in China and is generally viewed as the father of Protestant missionary work there. Modern scholarly interest in him has in the main focused on his role as a Bible translator (see, for example, Zetzsche 1999, especially Chapter 2). As part of his missionary activities, Morrison studied both written and spoken Chinese; and these researche…

  • The Chiehyunn System and the Current State of Chinese Historical Phonology

    W South CoblinARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2003

    Since the nineteenth century the field of historical phonology has encompassed two separate enterprises. The first and older of these is the phonological interpretation of written sources. The second is phonological reconstruction, within which may be distinguished comparative and internal reconstruction. Throughout most of the twentieth century, Chinese historical phonology was a field dominated by the first major approach, the interpretation of…

  • Migration history and dialect development in the lower Yangtze watershed

    Open AccessW South CoblinARTICLEBulletin of the School of…2002Cited by: 2

    The 1990s bore witness to significant advances in the study of Chinese migration history. This paper explores ways in which these new insights into population and migration patterns in the lower Yangtze watershed throw light on the history of dialects currently assigned to the Jiāng-Huái family by the Language atlas of China. It is found that the lexical corpora of many of these dialects were laid down as the result of two migration waves, one du…

  • A Diachronic Study Of Míng Guānhuà Phonology

    W South CoblinARTICLEMonumenta Serica2000

    (2000). A Diachronic Study Of Ming Guānhua Phonology. Monumenta Serica: Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 267-335

  • A Brief History of Mandarin

    W South CoblinARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2000Cited by: 9

    The received view of standard Mandarin is that it has been Pekingese-based for at least six hundred years. Recent research, little known outside a small circle of specialists, has revealed that this view is flawed and that for most of its history this standard language had little to do with Pekingese. The present naner introduces these new developments to the academic community at large

  • Obituary

    Marek Mejor, W South CoblinARTICLEMonumenta Serica1999

  • Francisco Varo and the Sound System of Early Qīng Mandarin

    W South CoblinARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1998Cited by: 1

  • Notes on the Sound System of Late Ming Guanhua

    W South CoblinARTICLEMonumenta Serica1997

    Les missionnaires jesuites qui allerent en Chine a la fin du 16e siecle ne s'interesserent que peu aux dialectes chinois locaux pendant la premiere partie de leur mission. Par contre, ils s'attacherent tout de suite a la langue judiciaire, langue largement utilisee dans le pays et connue par les Europeens comme le mandarin. Il semble que cette langue se soit developpee a partir des dialectes parles autour de l'ancienne capitale meridionale, Nanki…

  • Palatalization of Velars in the Nanking Dialect

    Open AccessW South CoblinARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1997Cited by: 1

    Nankingese is today classed as a Jiānghuái Mandarin dialect. As recently reported (Liú, 1994), velar initials do not occur before high front vowels in this language except in the two vernacular words ki11 'give' and k ′ i 'go'. There is, however, a series of palatal initials, , which appear exclusively before high front vowels; and in certain instances these consonants correspond to the gutturals k-, k′-, and h- in more conservative dialect group…

  • Northwest Reflections on the Yunjing

    W South CoblinARTICLET oung Pao1996

  • William H. Baxter

    W South CoblinARTICLEMonumenta Serica1995

    (1995). William H. Baxter: A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology. Monumenta Serica: Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 509-519

  • A New Approach to Chinese Historical Linguistics

    Jerry L Norman, Jerry Norman et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1995Cited by: 3

    The received model of Chinese linguistic history, and its associated historical linguistic methodologies, are found wanting in various respects. In particular, the latter field has become divorced from the study of actual spoken forms in Chinese of various places and periods and has instead focused almost exclusively on the exegesis of abstract sets or systems of philological data. A call is therefore issued for a new approach which refocuses the…

  • Remarks on Some Early Buddhist Transcriptional Data from Northwest China

    W South CoblinARTICLEMonumenta Serica1994

    L'A. fait une etude de quelques notions grammaticales, syntaxiques et de vocabulaire du dialecte du nord ouest de la Chine. Ce dialecte interesse un grand nombre de textes sur une longue periode. Il fait des rapprochement avec le sanskrit

  • Comparative Studies on Some Tang-Time Dialects of Shazhou

    W South CoblinARTICLEMonumenta Serica1992

    Les dialectes chinois historiques qui sont examines dans cet article, etaient parles au cours des 7 et 8 e siecles (Dynastie Tang) dans la province de Shazhou et ont ete conserves dans leur transcription tibetaine (textes Dunhuang). L'A. en se fondant sur ces transcriptions tente de reconstruire le systeme phonologique de ces dialectes

  • Thoughts On Dentilabialization in the Tang-Time Dialects of Shazhou

    W South CoblinARTICLET oung Pao1991

  • A Study of the Old Tibetan Shangshu Paraphrase, Part II

    W South CoblinARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1991

  • A Study of the Old Tibetan Shangshu Paraphrase, Part I

    W South CoblinARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1991

    Among the Tibetan Dunhuang documents held by the Bibliotheque Nationale is a 157-line fragmentary translation of several chapters from the early Chinese text, Shangshu, or Shujing (P.T. 986). In the present paper the Tibetan manuscript is transcribed, translated, and annotated. In a second part, to appear in the next issue of this journal, a syllabic index to the Tibetan text is provided, as well as an appendix containing translations of pertinen…

  • Chinese

    W South Coblin, Jerry NormanARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1990

  • The Languages of China

    W South Coblin, Robert Ramsey et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1988

  • Fangyan Gleanings

    W South CoblinARTICLEMonumenta Serica1986

  • On E. G. Pulleyblank's Middle Chinese

    W South CoblinARTICLEMonumenta Serica1984

  • A Handbook of Eastern Han Sound Glosses

    Open AccessW South Coblin, G H ChoaBOOKA Handbook of Eastern Han Sound…1983

    The core of the work is a systematically arranged listing of 2,558 sound glosses and 345 Buddhist transcriptions. Chinese characters in each entry are supplied with Middle Chinese and Eastern Han reconstructed forms

  • Studies in Old Northwest Chinese

    W South Coblin