Chinese Tone Word Formation

Derivation by tone-change refers to the use of a change of tone to create a new word related in meaning to the base word and is a category of derivation by phonetic change. This work is a specialized discussion of derivation by tone-change.The Old Chinese phonetic system adopted here makes use of Wang Li's concept that the entering tone is divided into a long entering tone and a short entering tone and furthermore assumes that both the yáng rhyme groups (those that end in a nasal) and the yīn rhyme groups (non-nasal endings) divide into level, rising and departing tones. The Middle Chinese tone system used adopts the tone category system of the Guǎng yùn and Jíyùn .The scope of the specialized discussion in this work encompasses those characters in Old Chinese which use the alteration between short and long entering tones to produce new words, and those characters in Old and Middle Chinese which use alteration between level, rising and departing tones to produce new words.The introduction deals with: a definition of derivation by tone-change ; the criteria used in selecting entries for this work; materials used for the study of derivation by tone-change; a brief history of the study of derivation by tone-change; the range of the entries in this work; and the purpose of this work. The proceeding main body of the dissertation is divided into two chapters.Chapter One is the "Word List for Derivation by Tone-Change in Old Chinese". This compiles a total of 100 pairs of words which exhibit the phenomenon of derivation by tone-change. The analysis...