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Article: A further note on yan [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and an [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].
- Article from:
- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Professor E. G. Pulleyblank's response (JAOS 123: 635-39) to my article on the Chinese particles yan [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and an [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] gives me an opportunity to correct a defect in the published version of my paper, (1) which ignored Pulleyblank's work on the subject.
In Pulleyblank's view, yan and an represent not a fusion of yu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and a fossilized pronoun *?an, as I had argued, but a combination of yu and a suffix *-n. While he complains that I do not "attempt to show that [the] hypothetical pronoun an [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] is ever used independently as a pronoun," he offers little ...