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Project

Study on Chinese Phonetic Loan Characters in Dunhuang Manuscripts Dating from 700-1000 CE

The project deals with an important mechanism in Chinese writing, the use of “phonetic loan characters”, as exemplified in the Dunhuang manuscript corpus and with an emphasis of non-canonical material dating from ca. 700 to 1000 CE. The use of loan characters will be systematically analyzed and its function concerning “orality” in Chinese writing investigated.

Date:1 Jan 2016 →  31 Oct 2020
Keywords:Phonetic loan characters, Dunhuang manuscripts, Chinese writing system
Disciplines:Linguistics, Literary studies, Other languages and literary studies, Language studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics