A further note on yan [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and an [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Goldin, Paul R. | Copyright information

Professor E. G. Pulleyblank's response (JAOS 123: 635-39) to my article on the Chinese particles yan [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and an [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] gives me an opportunity to correct a defect in the published version of my paper, (1) which ignored Pulleyblank's work on the subject.

In Pulleyblank's view, yan and an represent not a fusion of yu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and a fossilized pronoun *?an, as I had argued, but a combination of y...