• of Chinese. Edwin G. "Ted" Pulleyblank was born on August 7, 1922, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His father, William George Edwin Pulleyblank, was a teacher...
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  • as immediately borrowed from Tokharian tmān, which according to Edwin G. Pulleyblank might have been etymologically inherited from Old Chinese tman or...
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  • true contractions. As an alternative explanation for their origin, Edwin G. Pulleyblank proposed that the [-n] ending is derived from a Sino-Tibetan aspect...
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  • Linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-1998-5633-6. Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1962), "The Consonantal System of Old Chinese", Asia Major, 9:...
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    lexicon, and gave their versions of the transcription and translation: Edwin G. Pulleyblank (1963) argued that the Turkic interpretations cannot be considered...
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    Khmeric and Khmuic languages, and occasionally to Monic. Earlier, Edwin G. Pulleyblank (1983, 1999) also proposed that the Yi were Austroasiatic speakers...
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  • women of noble birth, while noble men have shi. Scholars such as Edwin G. Pulleyblank, however, are unconvinced by the matriarchy theory of Chinese surnames...
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    attempted to reconstruct the ancient pronunciation of Qiang: sinologist Edwin Pulleyblank reconstructs it to *kʰiaŋ in Middle Chinese, while William H. Baxter...
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    of data." Some scholars – most notably Lajos Ligeti (1950/51) and Edwin G. Pulleyblank (1962) – have claimed that languages of Siberia, especially Ket –...
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  • possibly a loanword from the Rouran language. Canadian sinologist Edwin G. Pulleyblank (1962) first suggested that a Xiongnu title, transcribed as 護于 (Old...
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  • Cambridge University, succeeding Arthur Christopher Moule and preceding Edwin G. Pulleyblank in that position. He researched about the Hundred Schools of Thought...
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    Suishu, vol. 84 Pulleyblank, E. G. "The Name of the Kirghiz." Central Asiatic Journal 34, no. 1/2 (1990). p. 99 Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1991). "The 'High...
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    tribe on east border, any border or foreign tribe." The sinologist Edwin G. Pulleyblank says the name Yi "furnished the primary Chinese term for 'barbarian'...
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  • (at the expense of including underlying glides in their systems). Edwin G. Pulleyblank has proposed a system which includes underlying glides, but no vowels...
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    Indo-European languages. However, the latter hypothesis is not supported by Edwin G. Pulleyblank. Christopher I. Beckwith's analysis is similar to Mair's, reconstructing...
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    Repr. in: Sun, Jinji et al. 1988 (vol. 1), p. 105. according to Edwin G. Pulleyblank (Schafer, p. 4) Schafer, p. 9 or "the luminous", Beckwith, p. 145...
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  • Pinyin) with differing reconstructions of Early Middle Chinese (Edwin G. Pulleyblank 1991), "Archaic" Chinese (Bernhard Karlgren 1957), and Middle Chinese...
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    vernacular Vietnamese, and created a Sinoxenic dialect. The Sinologist Edwin G. Pulleyblank was one of the first linguists to actively employ "Sino-Vietnamese"...
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    identification of the Avars with the Rouran on this basis. According to Edwin G. Pulleyblank, the name Avar is the same as the prestigious name Wuhuan in the...
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    "who settled along the northern Chinese frontier", according to Edwin G. Pulleyblank. However, this view is contested. Göktürks were also posited as having...
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    (單于), it is a "vast [and] great appearance" (廣大之貌).". L. Rogers and Edwin G. Pulleyblank argue that the title chanyu may be equivalent to the later attested...
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  • Xiajiasi 黠戛斯, Soviet scientists reconstructed the exonym Khakass. Edwin G. Pulleyblank surmises that "red face and yellow head" meaning was possibly a folk...
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    of Tang Emperor Wuzong, Xiajiasi (黠戛斯), said to mean "red face". Edwin G. Pulleyblank surmises that "red face" was possibly a folk etymology provided by...
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    life in the Tang-era Chinese capital city. The Canadian Sinologist Edwin G. Pulleyblank published an article in 1952, demonstrating the presence of a Sogdian...
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    poems attributed to Hanshan may span the entire Tang dynasty as Edwin G. Pulleyblank asserts in his study Linguistic Evidence for the Date of Hanshan...
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  • University of Guelph John Porter, former professor of sociology Edwin G. Pulleyblank, professor at the University of British Columbia Kenneth B. Storey...
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    Asia, "Kangju (W-G: K'ang-chü) 康居" was in or near the "Talas basin, [modern] Tashkent and Sogdiana". (According to Edwin Pulleyblank, Beitian – the summer...
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  • perhaps zhi < *drək 直 "straight; right". It quotes the proposal of Edwin G. Pulleyblank that de 德 and de 得 are cognate with Tibetan language thub "a mighty...
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  • Papers has been the venue for disputation among Victor H. Mair, Edwin G. Pulleyblank, and W. South Coblin . The Chinese neologism Tǔbó 圖博 (written with...
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  • (Thesis). University of British Columbia. doi:10.14288/1.0098752. Edwin G. Pulleyblank, “Some Remarks on the Toquzoghuz Problem”, 1956:39-40. Sturgeon,...
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