"You mean..."
"Work-study program." Zhou Zhi said: "I think the collection of dialect speech can be carried out as a work-study project."
"Shu University starts from each The provinces all recruit students. We can recruit students who are interested in this, conduct corresponding training, and then assign tasks to them so that they can work during the holidays. "Reading the word cards is very simple. They are indigenous, so they can finish it by themselves. The key is the slang, which may require going to the countryside." Investigation."
"It's the same as the "Jiachuan Dialect Field Survey" you did, right?" Mr. Gu understood a little bit.
"Yes, let them follow that template. In addition to the reward for the basic word cards, we will also reward the additional part, that is, if novel word combinations or Chinese character pronunciations are discovered in the dialect."
Gu Youwen knows this about himself The closed disciples are not generally rich. After all, many of Clover's projects are realized by combining the backgrounds of the Chinese Department and the Computer Department of Shu University. Gu Kailai, through Mai Mingdong, has no idea about the Clover Group's ability to make money. I don’t understand at all, but the old man let the wind pass through him when we were chatting at home.
It’s just that this family doesn’t take money seriously. If you have money, you can listen to it. Only now did Gu Youwen realize that if you are really wealthy, you will be rich, so you can mobilize a lot of resources. .
Think again that my son is doing research on "Ji Yun" in the capital. The funding he has received so far is only thirty thousand yuan.
"Then...should I put more burden on you?" As soon as Mr. Gu changed his mind, he immediately wanted to assign work to Zhou Zhi: "Otherwise, you seem to be too busy in the first year, so let's review it. Information collected by other students? And writing programs?”
Based on the old man's understanding of Zhou Zhi, this boy will never analyze the data manually after collecting it. He will definitely solve most problems through programs and databases. The phonetic and rhyme classics themselves are a set of very strict logic and methodology, and are very Suitable for information technology analysis.
The key point is that Clover Group now has many information technology talents, and he can also organize the group's background forces to do private work for him without tiring him.
"No way, no way..." Zhou Zhi waved his hands in fear: "It is also very troublesome to build this information system. It would be good if we can come up with ideas within a year."
" At most, while waiting for the speech samples, I studied the research results of Gao Benhan and Zheng Zhang Shangfang, and then combined with my master's "Guangyun Shuzheng", I combined the "Guangyun Shuzheng" 》
“I have completed the verification of the textual research you did for Master Guangyun Shuzheng,” Gu Youwen said: “Your idea is also very good. Let’s confirm it again with the research of Gao Benhan and Zheng Zhang Shangfang. Let’s look at the conflicts and list them for further study.”
As soon as Zhou Zhi heard this, he knew that the old man had committed his old habit again, something that several big shots had criticized - don't be afraid of being knowledgeable and don't be afraid of being late when publishing a book.
This is originally a good thing, but what the bosses are worried about is that everyone is too old to publish a book in time. What if...
"By the way, Luo Changpei, Zhao Yuanren and Li Fanggui added many annotations and supplements when translating Gao Benhan's works. Don't ignore these three."
"In addition. I’ll leave you with Zheng Zhang Shangfang’s phone number in a moment. If you encounter any problems with his paper during your research, you can call him directly for advice.”
“Eh? Are you familiar with him?” Zhang Shangfang is now in his seventies, about the same age as his teacher uncle. He began to receive a State Council subsidy last year and is now a professor at Nankai University. "This circle is only a little big in total." Mr. Gu said: "When your uncle, the teacher, was working on the "Chinese Dictionary", he was also on the writing team of Wenzhou Normal University. In 1980, he was admitted as an associate professor at the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. I left Wenzhou only after becoming a researcher and specialized in linguistics research in Beijing. I have a good relationship with your teacher.”
“It turns out that there is still such a relationship, then this matter will be easier to handle.” Zhou Zhi said with a smile.
“Well, once this thing is almost done, we will have a reliable method and quite reliable accuracy of the pitch value.”
“The rest of the work is waiting for the PhD project Let’s talk about it again, right?” Zhou Zhi smiled and said, “Master "Sir, it's good to be able to accomplish so many things in two years."
Mr. Gu couldn't help but smile. He was very satisfied with this young disciple, but with greater ability came greater responsibility. There is more to Zhou Zhi than this little achievement.
The reason why we have to do so many things based on the research of Gao Benhan and Zheng Zhang Shangfang, and even put aside our own knowledge, is enough to show that the old man's heart is not ordinary.
The Gu family's family studies mainly focused on medieval pronunciation and rhyme, mainly based on the exegesis of the Qianjia School handed down in the late Qing Dynasty. They used traditional methods to study exegesis, and followed the old path.
As for Gao Benhan's achievements, in addition to "Research on Chinese Phonology", there is also a masterpiece that covers the rest of his life - "Dictionary of Ancient Chinese".
If "Research on Chinese Phonology" only uses the tool of modern dialect investigation to find out a method of constructing a set of medieval pronunciation system and construct its phonetic value for the first time, it will promote the ancient pronunciation and confirm the modern pronunciation. If the pronunciation conditions are ready, then the "Ancient Chinese Dictionary" is Gao Benhan's further deduction and practice based on this method, making an important attempt to reconstruct the ancient pronunciation.
His method mainly makes use of the rhyme principle of "The Book of Songs" and the homophonic principle of Chinese characters, and uses the "internal simulation method" to construct the medieval sound system he constructed himself, that is, the "Qie Yun" phonetic system. The sound value of the sound categories in The Book of Songs.
The "internal simulation method" is a method developed by applying the analysis method of synchronic language structure to the study of language evolution after the rise of structural linguistics in the 1930s and 1940s.
Gao Benhan applied it to the study of ancient Chinese pronunciation. His research results can be found in different publications such as "Chinese and Japanese Analytical Dictionary of Chinese Characters", "Problems in Ancient Chinese", "Research on the Book of Songs" and "Word Families of Chinese". Writing.
If "Research on Chinese Phonology" is the culmination of Gao Benhan's research on the phonetics of medieval Chinese, then "Dictionary of Ancient Chinese" is his concentrated description of his research on ancient Chinese phonology. They both occupy an important place in the history of Chinese linguistics. The application of this method to the study of Chinese phonology history has achieved remarkable results and has been widely accepted by Chinese linguists.
The same is true for Zheng Zhang Shangfang. He and Pan Wuyun studied the harmonic rhyme together during the turbulent times. They worked hard for ten years and completed a new six-vowel ancient sound construction system.
What’s even more interesting is that this system independently constructed by Zheng Zhang and Pan was almost simultaneously constructed in the international academic circles in the 1980s with the ancient sound constructions of Bao Yugu and Bai Yiping in the United States and Staroskin in the former Soviet Union. They were developed independently in different parts of the world and relied on different material arguments, but they came to almost the same conclusion.
These three schools were praised by academic circles for a time, and were also called the three major systems of hexavowel construction.
Obviously, Mr. Gu felt that in his own field, Zhou Zhi's generation should be able to excel and enter ancient sound construction. (End of this chapter)