王力 ≪同源字典≫의 章組 성모 교체 유형 수정

초록

Cognates in two languages or in any single language are words which are both semantically and phonologically connected among themselves. There should be phonological alternations in regard to relations among them. Wang Li, in his work Dictionary of Cognate Words[≪同源字典≫], has categorised the alternations of initial consonants of various cognate sets, as well as of finals, into several types. This study pays special attention to his methodology of classifying the shift types of zhang series initials which alternate with themselves or with other initials as there is room for rectification about his phonology of this series. He reconstructed this series as palatal affricates/ fricatives, and consequently subdivided the concept of “alliteration[雙聲]”, the traditional shift type of initial consonants, into 5 types, i.e., (quasi-) alliteration, (quasi-)side button[(準)旁紐], adjacent button[鄰紐]. But some influential scholars working on Old Chinese phonology found that phonology of this series should be simply revised to alveolar stops or sonorants which accompanied the 3rd grade medial j, and their systems are claimed to be more persuasive than the Wang Li’s. We take up Zheng-Zhang’s Old Chinese phonology as our departing point of discussion. Under this postulation, quasi-alliteration and quasi-side button among cognate words should be integrated into alliteration and/or side button in terms of relation between zhang series and duan series[端組]. The alternations among yi initial[以母], chuan initial[船母] and shu initial[書母] should be revised to alliteration as all of them shared the identical segment *l in Old Chinese. We have reached conclusions that quasi-alliteration and quasi-side button types should be removed, and that the scope of adjacent button should be sharply narrowed in accordance with the revision of the zhang series in Wang Li’s Old Chinese phonology.

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