Gong Hwang cherng
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Gong Hwang-cherng (1934–2010) was a Taiwan
Chinese linguist who specialized in Sino-Tibetan comparative linguistics and the phonetic reconstruction of Tangut
and Old Chinese
. He was born 10 December 1934 at Yunlin County
in Taiwan, and graduated from National Taiwan Normal University
in 1958 with a degree in English
. He earned his PhD in 1975 from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany
, and was a research fellow and later professor at Academia Sinica
in Taiwan. He was elected an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America
in 2001, and an academician of Academia Sinica
in 2002. In 2006 he received a life achievement award from the Linguistic Society of Taiwan.
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
Chinese linguist who specialized in Sino-Tibetan comparative linguistics and the phonetic reconstruction of Tangut
Tangut language
Tangut is an ancient northeastern Tibeto-Burman language once spoken in the Western Xia Dynasty, also known as the Tangut Empire. It is classified by some linguists as one of the Qiangic languages, which also include Qiang and rGyalrong, among others...
and Old Chinese
Old Chinese
The earliest known written records of the Chinese language were found at a site near modern Anyang identified as Yin, the last capital of the Shang dynasty, and date from about 1200 BC....
. He was born 10 December 1934 at Yunlin County
Yunlin County
Yunlin County is a county in the western part of Taiwan, the Republic of China. Yunlin is located to the right of the Taiwan Strait, the east of Nantou County and sharing a border with Changhua County divided by the Zhuoshui River. Yunlin is one of the counties of Taiwan that is part of the Chianan...
in Taiwan, and graduated from National Taiwan Normal University
National Taiwan Normal University
National Taiwan Normal University is an institution of higher learning operating on three campuses in Taipei, Taiwan . NTNU is widely recognized as one of Taiwan's elite institutions of higher education. The university enrolls approximately 11,000 students each year. The ratio of undergraduate to...
in 1958 with a degree in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
. He earned his PhD in 1975 from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, and was a research fellow and later professor at Academia Sinica
Academia Sinica
The Academia Sinica , headquartered in the Nangang District of Taipei, is the national academy of Taiwan. It supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from mathematical and physical sciences, to life sciences, and to humanities and social sciences.Academia Sinica has...
in Taiwan. He was elected an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America
Linguistic Society of America
The Linguistic Society of America is a professional society for linguists. It was founded in 1924 to advance linguistics, the scientific study of human language. The LSA has over 5,000 individual members and welcomes linguists of all kinds. It works to advance the discipline and to communicate...
in 2001, and an academician of Academia Sinica
Academia Sinica
The Academia Sinica , headquartered in the Nangang District of Taipei, is the national academy of Taiwan. It supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from mathematical and physical sciences, to life sciences, and to humanities and social sciences.Academia Sinica has...
in 2002. In 2006 he received a life achievement award from the Linguistic Society of Taiwan.
Works
- Gong Huang-cherng 龚煌成 (1977). "古藏文的y 及其相關問題 guzangwen de y ji qixiangguan wenti [Ancient Tibetan y and related questions]." Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 48.2 :205-228. (reprinted in) Gong Hwang-cherng 龔煌城 (2002). 漢藏語硏究論文集 Hanzangyu yanjiulun wenji / Collected Papers on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics. Taipei: 中央硏究院語言學硏究所籌備處 Zhong yang yan jiu yuan yuyanxue yanjiusuo choubeichu: 379–399.
- Gong Hwang-cherng (1980). "A Comparative Study of the Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese Vowel Systems." Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 51.3: 455–490. (reprinted in:) 漢藏語硏究論文集 Hanzangyu yanjiulun wenji / Collected Papers on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics. Taipei: 中央硏究院語言學硏究所籌備處 Zhong yang yan jiu yuan yuyanxue yanjiusuo choubeichu, 2002: 1–30.
- Gong Hwang-cherng (1995). "The System of Finals in Proto-Sino-Tibetan". The Ancestry of the Chinese Language. William S. Y. Wang, ed. (Journal of Chinese linguistics. Monograph series 8) Berkeley: Project on Linguistic Analysis, University of California: 41–92. (reprinted in:) 漢藏語硏究論文集 Hanzangyu yanjiulun wenji / Collected Papers on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics. Taipei: 中央硏究院語言學硏究所籌備處 Zhong yang yan jiu yuan yuyanxue yanjiusuo choubeichu, 2002: 79–124.
- Gong Hwang-cherng 龔煌城 (1999). 〈西夏語的緊元音及其起源〉 [Tense vowels and their origin in Xixia]. 《中央研究院歷史語言研究所集刊》 [Collected Papers of the Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica] 70.2: 531–558.
- Gong Hwang-cherng 龔煌城 (2001). 〈西夏語動詞的人稱呼應音韻轉換〉 [Rime transformation and person agreement in Xixia verbs]. 《語言暨語言學》 [Language and Linguistics] 2.1: 21–67.
External links
- Coblin, W. SouthWeldon South CoblinWeldon South Coblin is a linguist and sinologist. He was a student of Li Fang-Kuei. Early in his career he made many important contributions to Tibetan and Tibeto-Burman linguistics, but since the mid 1990s has worked primarily on alphabetic representations of Chinese...
(2003). "A Recent Contribution to Sino-Tibetan Linguistics (Review Article)", Language and Linguistics 4(4):887–902. A review of Gong's Collected Papers on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics.