Code
01N03516
Duration
01 January 2016 → 31 October 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Language studies
- Linguistics
- Literary studies
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
Phonetic loan characters
Dunhuang manuscripts
Chinese writing system
Middle Ages
Chinese
Language and text analysis
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Chinese writing
Asia
Language technology
Linguistics
Project description
The project deals with an important mechanism in Chinese writing, the use of “phonetic loan characters”, as exemplified in the Dunhuang manuscript corpus and with an emphasis of non-canonical material dating from ca. 700 to 1000 CE. The use of loan characters will be systematically analyzed and its function concerning “orality” in Chinese writing investigated.