Abstract
AbstractThis article evaluates the pioneering works on Chinese historical phonology by Joshua Marshman (1768–1837), who is routinely credited as the first scholar to have produced a romanisation of the Chinese language for English speakers. This article seeks to demonstrate that Marshman's transcriptional/reconstructive approach has led to an advancement in the field of Chinese historical phonology mainly on two aspects: (i) it led to the establishment of a general theory of phonetic description; (ii) it paved the way to the formulation of a mechanic and systematic model for the individuation of sound changes. For these reasons, Marshman must be regarded as the first real forerunner of modern historical Chinese phonology.
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