罗杰瑞教授与汉语史研究  

Professor Jerry L. Norman and Chinese Linguistic History

作　　者：张光宇[1] 

机构地区：[1]清华大学语言学研究所,台湾新竹300113

出　　处：《语言研究》2014年第2期115-126,F0003,共13页Studies in Language and Linguistics

摘　　要：作为普林斯顿学派的一员健将,罗杰瑞教授在汉语史上的主要贡献可分两方面来看。其一是提出建议重新检视高本汉的基本假设,例如韵图不是透视切韵的唯一凭借。其二是尝试重建古闽语,把高本汉所说的闽语例外揭示出来。他的汉语专著是西方世界的中国语文通论课本,视野高瞻远瞩,文笔细腻周延。When Prof. Norman passed away last summer, at 76, he must have worn an avuncular, affable smile on his face like he always did while sharing his views with young scholars, mind at peace with mission accomplished. His smile can be deceptive when it comes to the core issue of Chinese linguistics. On this one-year anniversary of his death, as I reflect on his path, two of his conspicuous views come to the fore： one on Chinese historical phonology and the other on Chinese dialectology. He is a Gladiator in his tenacious, Herculean attempt to put an end to the myth surrounding Karlgren. The myth is a mix of misrepresentation of the written records and the resulting unorthodox exercise of the comparative method. To that end, it takes not just courage it also takes profound mastery of Chinese dialectology. His maverickism has yet to win wide and loud applause, but it struck a chord with me long before his monumental Chinese appeared. He is a trailblazer in the study of Chinese dialectology. His academic debut, titled Tonal development in Min（闽）, was and still is a sensation in the circle. While everyone else indulged himself in vertical comparison, he had opened a new horizon doing, fittingly, horizontal comparison, producing a ＂bizarre picture＂ about Chinese linguistic history. It was a work out of the modus operandi of historical linguistics, but proved unsuited for the taste of the general audience. He came under fire, but he felt undaunted throughout his lifetime, because his colleagues were not as skilled in the techniques （basic procedure） and the so-called ＂dualism＂ about that discipline. Like Karlgren before him, he has now become the center of gravity. Criticism of him may be easy but, to be fair, amid the gun-smokes he has inspired many in the field： we can do it in a very different manner, more fruitful and academically more significant. In his stellar research career, Norman has left splendid footprints. He is a terminator of a long tradition in the field of Chinese historical phonology

关 键 词：比较法 汉语语音史 汉语方言学 古闽语 层次分析 

分 类 号：H0[语言文字—语言学] H11