Masaki Nohara
List of John Benjamins publications in which Masaki Nohara is involved.
Articles
2023 Old Chinese ‘egg’: More evidence for consonant clusters Language and Linguistics 24:2, pp. 325–344 | Article
This paper attempts to reconstruct the onset of the word for ‘egg’ in Old Chinese (OC). Based solely on Middle Chinese (MC), *rˤonʔ would be the default OC reconstruction. However, philological evidence such as a phonetic relationship (also called Xiéshēng connections), annotations, and… read more
2018 Old Chinese “west”: *snˤər Language and Linguistics 19:4, pp. 577–591 | Article
This article aims to reconstruct the word “west” in Old Chinese phonology. In previous studies, since there was no sufficient evidence besides Chinese dialects, phonetic compounds, and phonetic loans, most scholars reconstructed its onset as *s-. One of the oldest dictionaries, Shuōwén jiězì… read more