In this Chinese name, the family name is Zheng (paternal) and Zhang (maternal).
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Born
Zheng Xiangfang (郑祥芳)
(1933-08-09)9 August 1933
Yongjia County, Zhejiang, China
Died
19 May 2018(2018-05-19) (aged 84)
Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China[1]
Occupation
linguist
Known for
reconstruction of Old Chinese
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
郑张尚芳
Traditional Chinese
鄭張尚芳
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Zhèngzhāng Shàngfāng
Bopomofo
ㄓㄥˋㄓㄤㄕㄤˋㄈㄤ
IPA
[ʈʂə̂ŋ ʈʂáŋ ʂâŋ fáŋ]
Zhengzhang Shangfang[a] (9 August 1933 – 19 May 2018) was a Chinese linguist, known for his reconstruction of Old Chinese.[2]
Zhengzhang was born as Zheng Xiangfang (郑祥芳Zhèng Xiángfāng) in Yongjia County, on the outskirts of Wenzhou. As 祥 and 尚 have the same pronunciation in the Wenzhou dialect, his personal name became Shangfang (尚芳). While in high school, his parents changed his family name to Zhengzhang, which combined his father's surname Zheng with his mother's surname Zhang.[3]
At this time, he became interested in historical phonology and studied the works of Yuen Ren Chao, Wang Li and others at Wenzhou's library. In 1954, unable to enter university to study linguistics due to familial reasons, he attended the Beijing University of Geosciences and began geological work in the Beijing area.[3] In his spare time, he continued to develop his own ideas on Old Chinese phonology, particularly the finals and vowel system.[4] In the 1960s and 1970s, he undertook dialect survey work in Wenzhou for Lü Shuxiang until he was sent to work in a factory during the Cultural Revolution. During a period when the factory was closed due to a factional battle in the Chinese Communist Party, he began exchanging ideas with Pan Wuyun and Jin Shengrong, and refined his Old Chinese system to a six-vowel system.[5] Essentially the same system was independently developed by William Baxter (building on a proposal by Nicholas Bodman) and by Sergei Starostin.[6] In 1980, he joined the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.[5]
^【讣告】郑张尚芳先生逝世. Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
^Boltz (2002), p. 105.
^ abZhengzhang (2003), p. 592.
^Zhengzhang (2003), pp. 593–594.
^ abZhengzhang (2003), p. 594.
^Baxter & Sagart (2014), p. 393.
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