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| | When you ask the average sinologist intersted in historical linguistics what he or she considers the most important ... |
 | | This is not to suggest, of course, that Karlgren came out of the void as some kind of inscrutable prodigy of sinological learning. |
 | | He was firmly rooted in a long and glorious tradition of Chinese phonological, semasiological, and evidential research, which, in the form of Duan Yucai’s (1735-1815) Gu shiqi bu xiesheng biao [Table of phonophoric series in the old seventeen rime groups], had even produced a fairly well-known structural model for the compilation of the GSR. |
 | | This was by and large the state of affairs during the late seventies, an almost stalwart atmosphere perceived as a curious form of internecine scholasticism from the outside, and criticized, even recently, as an "endless rehashing of the same old data". |
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