The Historical Strata Of Finals In The Eastern Min Dialects

This paper is a intative contibution to the historical strata of Eastern Min dialects by using an approach of historical stratum analysis.There are twenty chapters in full,and the main content can be divided into four parts.Part One(Intorduction):I give a brief introduction on the historical course of Min dialcet and the history of building beyond eighteen areas,including Fuzhou(福州),Fuqing(福清),Changle(长乐),Minhou(闽侯),Lianjiang(连江),Luoyuan(罗源),Minqing(|闪清),Yongtai(永泰),Pingtan(平潭),Ningde(宁德),Gutian(古田),Fu’an(福安),Fuding(福鼎),Zhouning(周宁),Xiapu(霞浦),Zherong(柘荣),Pingnan(屏南),Shouning(寿宁),the distribution and the history of the research on Eastern Min dialects,as well as its phonological features.Part Two(from the second chapter to the third chapter):We summarize the historical strata analysis theoretically,illustrating its background,definition and methods.Part Three(from the forth chapter to the twentieth chapter) is the main body of this paper.Under the guidance of my tutor,I have finished fildword of most Eastern Min dialects.This thesis aims to have a comprehensive and systematic study of phonology in the Eastern Min Dialects, based on the materials we collected and the materials published.This paper take sixteen she(摄)in Middle Chinese as the frame, including Guo-she(果摄),Jia-she(假摄),Yu-she(遇摄),Xie-she(蟹摄),Zhi-she(止摄),Xiao-she(效摄),Liu-she(流摄),Xian-she(�'�摄),Shan-she(山摄),Shen-she(深摄),Zhen-she(臻摄),Dang-she(宕摄),Jiang-she(江摄),Zeng-she(曾摄),Geng-she(梗摄),Tong-she(通摄),then discuss them one by one.In every chapter, I discuss the sound strata of the rhyme in Fuzhou dialect which is typical in Eastern Min dialects. Secondly, I compare them in detail to find the corresponding stages. Then, I reconstruct the pronunciations of every stage to explain sound changes of dialects. Finally, I summarize the historical stratas of Guo-she in the Eastern Min dialects. And then, in the seventeenth chapter, we conclude the features of the historical strata beyond rhymes in the Eastern Min dialects.Part four(the twenty-first chapter):We also do some systematic researchs of the system of rhyme in the Eastern Min dialects. On the basis of the system of rhyme in Fuzhou(福州)dialect, I analyze the situation of it in the east of Fujian(福建)systematically.