David Prager Branner 林德威

(號: 茶米)

Lexicographer of Chinese

Some past publications

Word formation in Chinese
- Articles and chapters
  1. 2010. “Motivation and Nonsense in Chinese Secret Languages.” To appear in Anne Yue-Hashimoto and W. South Coblin, eds., Luó Jiéruì xiānsheng qīzhì jìn sān shòuqìng lùnwénjí 羅杰瑞先生七秩晉三壽慶論文集, Publication expected 2010, University of Hong Kong Press. Late pre-publication proof.
  2. 2009. With Yuan-Yuan Meng 孟苑苑: "Syntactic Yoga in Chinese-English Lexicography.” Presented as a plenary speech at the 2009年《康熙字典》暨词典学国际学术研讨会 [International Seminar on Kangxi Dictionary and Lexicology, 2009], Huángchéng Xiàngfǔ, Yángchéng County, Shānxī 山西省阳城县皇城相府, on 16 July, 2009 and scheduled to appear in the Proceedings of the conference.
Chinese inflectional morphology
- Articles and chapters
  1. 2002. “Common Chinese and Early Chinese Morphology.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122/4:706-721.
  2. 2003. “On Early Chinese Morphology and its Intellectual History.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Ser. 3, 15/1:45-76.
Chinese phonology
- Books
  1. 2006. The Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic Philosophy and Historical-comparative Phonology. And list of Corrigenda. ISBN: 978-90-272-4785-8.
  2. Forthcoming. Shēngyùnxué 聲韻學: A Practical Guide to Medieval Chinese Phonology.
- Articles and chapters
  1. 1997. “Notes on the beginnings of systematic dialect description and comparison in Chinese.” Historiographia Linguistica 24/3:235-66.
  2. 1999. “A Neutral Transcription System for Teaching Medieval Chinese.” T‘ang Studies 17:1-170.
  3. 2000. “The Rime-table System of Formal Chinese Phonology.” Article 6 of the Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften — History of the Language Sciences — Histoire des sciences du language — an International Handbook on the Evolution of the Study of Language from the Beginnings to the Present, edited by Sylvain Auroux, Konrad Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe, and Kees Versteegh. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2000. Pp. 46-55.
  4. 2000. “The Suí-Táng Tradition of Fǎnqiè Phonology.” Article 5 of the Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften — History of the Language Sciences — Histoire des sciences du language — an International Handbook on the Evolution of the Study of Language from the Beginnings to the Present, edited by Sylvain Auroux, Konrad Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe, and Kees Versteegh. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2000. Pp. 36-46.
  5. 2006. “What are Rime Tables and What do They Mean?". The Chinese Rime-tables, pp. 1-34.
  6. 2006. “Simon Schaank and the Evolution of Western Beliefs About Traditional Chinese Phonology.” The Chinese Rime-tables, pp. 151-167.
  7. 2006. “Some Composite Phonological Systems in Chinese.” The Chinese Rime-tables, pp. 210-232.
  8. 2006. “Comparative Transcriptions of Rime Table Phonology.” The Chinese Rime-tables, pp. 265-302.
  9. 2003. “ 'Red Cliffs' in Taiwanese Hànbûn.” CHINOPERL, pp. 67-100.
  10. 2003. “Tonal Prosody in Chinese Parallel Prose.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 123/1:93-119.
  11. 2010. “Phonology in the Chinese Script and its Relationship to Early Chinese Literacy.” Final pre-publication draft only!. To appear in Li Feng and David Prager Branner, eds., Writing and Literacy in Early China, scheduled for publication by the University of Washington Press in 2010. Late pre-publication proof.
Dialect classification and ID
- Books
  1. 2000. Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN: 978-3-11-015831-1. PDF of final pre-publication draft (in two parts because of its size):
    - Text only
    - Appendices, Notes, References, and Index.
- Articles and chapters
  1. 1995. “A Gutyan Jongbao Dialect Notebook 姑田中堡方言的記音簿.” In The Yuen Ren Society Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data I (March, 1995):243-338. Offprint (reformatted, with corrections), dated 20090903.
  2. 1996. “A Gerchuan Juyu 隔川朱餘 Dialect Notebook. 隔川朱餘方言的記音簿.” Yuen Ren Society Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data 元任學會漢語方言資料寶庫. Vol II (March 1996):289-349. Offprint (reformatted, with corrections), dated 20090903.
  3. 1999. “The Classification of Longyan.” In Issues in Chinese Dialect Description and Classification, edited by Richard VanNess Simmons. Journal of Chinese Linguistics monograph series no. 15, pp. 36-83.
Other
- Books
  1. 1995. The Yuen Ren Society Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data 元任學會漢語方言資料寶庫. Vol. I, March, 1995. Seattle: Yuen Ren Society. ISSN: 1081-0129. Out of print.
  2. 1996. The Yuen Ren Society Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data 元任學會漢語方言資料寶庫. Vol. II, March 1996. Seattle: Yuen Ren Society. ISSN: 1081-0129.
  3. 2002. Short Chinese Dialect Reports I. Silver Spring: Yuen Ren Society, 2002. Volume 3 of the Yuen Ren Society's dialectology series. ISBN: 978-0-9723678-0-2. ISSN: 1081-0129.
  4. [ 2010. Writing and Literacy in Early China. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Co-edited with Feng Li 李峰. ]
- Articles and chapters
  1. 1999. “A study of Edward Harper Parker, an early Western dialect fieldworker in China.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 119/1:12-34.
  2. 2001. “Min”. Article for Facts About the World’s Major Languages, edited by Jane Garry and Carl Rubino. New York and Dublin: H. H. Wilson Company, 2001. Pp. 151-157.
  3. 2001. “Classical Chinese”. Article for Facts About the World’s Major Languages, edited by Jane Garry and Carl Rubino. H. H. Wilson Company, 2001. Pp. 134-138.
  4. 2003. “The Chinese Grammatical Tradition.” Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, (2nd ed.) Oxford University Press (2003). Vol. 2, pp. 192-193.
  5. 2006. “China: Writing system." The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, ed. Keith Brown. 2nd edition. Amsterdam and London: Elsevier. Vol. 2, pp. 331-341. (Final pre-publication draft.)
- Recent public lectures
  1. 2009. Chinese Language. Guest lecture in Columbia University course East Asian V2359, "Introduction to East Asian Civilization: China", 10 September, 2009.

Columbia Early China Seminar programs for which I share responsibility may be viewed at

Please note that under our standard agreement with our speakers, these articles are password-protected and I am not permitted to give the passwords to non-members of the Seminar.

The Seminar is now concentrating on the problems connected with literacy in early China. On the first weekend of February 2009, there was a three-day symposium on the subject, culminating in a book.

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