Historical dialectology and the Poetry Classic
Language Log 2020-07-09
Summary:
[This is a guest post by John Carlyle written in response to the following comment by E. Bruce Brooks to "Similes for female pulchritude in an ancient Chinese poem" (7/1/20): The formation of the Shr* corpus is currently under serious study, and it can be said with some certainty at this preliminary stage that this […]