Ruiqing Shen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ruiqing Shen is involved.

Articles

Bao, Zhiming, Ruiqing Shen and Kunmei Han 2023 Languages and language contact in China Language Contact with Chinese, Bao, Zhiming (ed.), pp. 1–13 | Introduction

China is ethnically and linguistically diverse. There are 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in the country, including the majority Han, with a 1.2 billion-strong population and Tatar, the smallest minority group with only 3,556 people residing in Xinjiang, according to the 2010 Population… read more

Shen, Ruiqing 2023 閩南語的去鼻化音變與原始沿海閩語的清響音 [Denasalization in Southern Min and voiceless sonorants in Proto-Coastal-Min] Language and Linguistics 24:3, pp. 515–539 | Article

本文希望能在前人研究的基礎上更合理地解釋閩南語去鼻化音變(Denasalization)的來龍去脈。首先，本文觀察到閩南語的去鼻化現象中的「詞彙兩分」現象跟中古四聲的聲調兩分存在關聯，且詞彙條件完全一致，兩者的相關性只能用一個同時存在清濁兩套鼻音的階段來解釋，即去鼻化音變發生在清濁鼻音合併之前。其次，本文發現閩南語的去鼻化符合世界語言去鼻化音變的普遍規律：它發生在鼻化元音出現與濁塞音消失之後。最後，本文也梳理了閩南語去鼻化音變及其相關音變的條件與相對順序，構擬了原始沿海閩語表現為清響音的語素，並討論了它跟客家話的聯繫。