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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
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January 1, 2004| Author:
Goldin, Paul R.
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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...