A Study of the Chinese Phonology during the Yuan Dynasty

本文对元代的各种音系材料进行了重新考察。首先，将国内的《中原音韵》、《中州乐府音韵类编》等元代音韵研究的基础资料，通过unicord转换为数字数据库，研究其编纂过程。研究结果表明，《中原音韵》是在《中州乐府音韵类编》的基础上扩充而成的，《中州乐府音韵类编》是在《广韵》中提取基本字而成的，《广韵》在《中原音韵》的扩充过程中也有使用。在研究过程中，我对《中原音韵》的各种版本进行了考证，其中包括现存版本中最古老的元代圭书国版本，此外，我还成功地收集了一个新发现的明代版本。在这个新发现的版本中，对每个词尾都有语音描述，这在其他版本中是看不到的，它们特别突出。此外，我还尝试将前人对蒙古紫云等八思巴材料的系统研究纳入到本课题中。另一方面，对《致远易语》这部珍贵的汉蒙材料进行了研究。目前，波斯文和日文文献数据库尚未完成。对《泉元曲》声韵字的融入也做了基础性的研究。通过这些研究，对元代各种音韵文献的各个方面进行了较为详细的梳理，为整合前人的研究资料和成果做了基础性的工作。

In this study, I reexamined various phonological materials of the Yuan dynasty. First, the domestic documents such as the Zhongyuan yinyun, the Zhongzhou yuefu yinyun leibian phonology and so on, which are the fundamental materials for the research of the Yuan dynasty phonology, were converted as digital database by unicord, and then I researched their compiling processes. As a result, new findings that advance the former discussions are obtained: It was known that the Zhongyuan yinyun was enlarged on the basis of the Zhongzhou yuefu yinyun leibian, and the later was compiled by picking up basic characters in the Guangyun sequently; it has been clarified that the Guangyun was also used in the enlarging process of the Zhongyuan yinyun. In the research process, I examined the various versions of the Zhongyuan yinyun, including the Kyou Shooku version of the Yuan dynasty the is the oldest version among the existent copies, moreover, I succeded to collect a newly found Ming dynasty version. In this newly discovered version, there are phonetical descriptions to the each final which are not seen in the other versions, they are expecially interisting. Moreover, I tried to incoporate the previous systematical studies on hPhags-pa materials such as the Menggu ziyun into our project. On the other hand, I researched the Zhiyuan Yiyu, which is a valuable Sino-Mongolian material. For the time being, the database of the Persian documents and the Japanese documents is not completed. Fundamental researches were also done for incorporation of the rhyme characters in the Quan Yuanqu. As a result of these studies, aspects of various phonological documents of the Yuan dynasty are clarified in detail, the basic work for incorporation the all previous research materials and results were done.