关于汉语词源研究的几个问题

历史语言学的词源学与中国训诂学的传统词源学二者在观念和方法上均有较大差别,但其任务都是进行词源研究.汉语词源的判断必须以音近、义通为条件.汉语词汇的积累大约经历了原生阶段、派生阶段、合成阶段等.历史比较法可将词的产生历史提前,得出早于周秦的词义和语音状况.汉语词源学词典的编纂条件目前尚未成熟.

A Few Questions on the Etymological Study of Chinese

Despite the identical object of study, an etymological approach in terms of historical linguistics is considerably different from one in terms of Chinese traditional exegetics in conception and method. Roughly speaking, the accumulation of Chinese vocabulary largely experienced such stages as generation, derivation and compounding. The introduction of historical comparative approach can describe the circumstance of word sense and phonetic sounds in the historical period even earlier than the Zhou and the Qin Dynasties. Based on this analysis, it is still out of the question to compile a Chinese etymological dictionary.