Jonathan Smith
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jonathan Smith plays a role.
Articles
2022 Tangut uvularization and the devil in the Chinese details Language and Linguistics 23:2, pp. 313–328 | Article
I critique traditional simplex approaches to Tangut Grade by primary reference to Xun Gong’s new suggestion that Grade I/II syllables were contrastively uvularized. Such proposals are rooted in the categories of philological Middle Chinese (MC), but the Grades are at the same time incommensurate… read more
2021 Diverse sources and an internal foundation for voiced onsets in Northern Mǐn Language and Linguistics 22:1, pp. 71–110 | Article
The voiced onsets and associated tonal reflexes of Northern Mǐn (NM), motivation for Norman’s (1973; 1974) proto-Mǐn “softened” stops and affricates, remain a subject of controversy. Following a brief introduction (§ 1), I begin by reviewing the various apparent sources of voiced onsets in NM,… read more
Some problems involving Proto-Mǐn onsets and new Old Chinese Diachronica: Online-First Articles | Article
The Mǐn languages are crucial for the study of early Chinese, and Baxter and Sagart’s (2014) new Old Chinese system aims to prioritize Jerry Norman’s Proto-Mǐn of the 1970s. This report describes three key problems relating to the reconstruction of Proto-Mǐn syllable onsets, observing that, in… read more