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Article: Once again Old Chinese yan [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and an [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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In a recent number of this journal, harking back to one of the late George Kennedy's important contributions to Old Chinese grammar, Paul Goldin proposes, as if it were a brand new idea, that the hypothetical pronoun *an that Kennedy supposed had fused with the preposition yu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 'in' to give yan [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] in the meaning 'in it' was none other than "an [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] or yan [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] itself" (Goldin 2003). As it happens he was anticipated in the first part of this suggestion by my very first publication on Old Chinese grammar entitled "A Case of Sandhi?" (Pulleyblank 1958). I ...