Li Rong (linguist)

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Li Rong
Born(1920-02-04)February 4, 1920
DiedDecember 31, 2002(2002-12-31) (aged 82)
Scientific career
FieldsChinese language
InstitutionsCASS Institute of Linguistics
Chinese name
Hanyu Pinyin
Lǐ Róng

Li Rong (4 February 1920 – 31 December 2002) was a Chinese

linguist known for his work on Chinese dialectology
. He was director of the Institute of Linguistics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 1982 to 1985,[1] and editor of the Language Atlas of China and the Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects.[2]

Li Rong was born in Wenling county, Zhejiang. In 1939 he was admitted to the

Southwest Associated University in Kunming
, studying Chinese literature. In 1943, he went on to postgraduate study at the Language Institute of Peking University, then based in Kunming. His master's thesis, a study of the system of fanqie pronunciation guides in the Qieyun, a 7th-century rime dictionary, was published in 1952.[2] In this work, he demonstrated that the mysterious "divisions" of the later rime tables reflected distributional patterns in the Qieyun.[3]

Li Rong founded the Chinese dialectology journal Fangyan in 1979, and served as its editor.[2] He led a team from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, collaborating with the Australian Academy of the Humanities to produce the Language Atlas of China in 1987.[2] The Atlas was based on Li's revised classification of Chinese dialects, with separate Jin, Hui and Pinghua groups. Although this classification has been adopted by many workers, it remains controversial.[4][5] Li was also the chief editor of the Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, containing descriptions of 42 varieties from locations scattered across China.[2]

Selected works

  • Li, Rong (1952). Qièyùn yīnxì 切韵音系 [Qieyun phonology] (in Chinese). Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • —— (1957). Hànyǔ fāngyán diàochá shǒucè 汉语方言调查手册 [Chinese dialects investigation manual] (in Chinese). Beijing.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • —— (1979). "Wēnlǐng fāngyán de liándú biàndiào" 温岭方言的连读变调 [Tone sandhi in the Wenling dialect]. Fangyan (in Chinese) (1): 1–29.
  • Wurm, Stephen Adolphe; Li, Rong; Baumann, Theo; Lee, Mei W. (1987). Language Atlas of China. Longman.
    ISBN 978-962-359-085-3
    .

References

  1. ^ "The Institute of Linguistics, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences". Archived from the original on 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2015-04-19.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Lǐ Róng xiānshēng jiǎnlì" 李荣先生简历 [Li Rong: biographical sketch] (in Chinese). Institute of Linguistics, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-04-19, adapted from obituary in Fangyan 2003(2):97–107.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  3. ISBN 978-90-272-4785-8
    .
  4. ISBN 978-3-11-021914-2
    .
  5. ISBN 978-3-89586-629-6
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