書評《漢藏語言比較的方法與實踐－－漢、白、彝比較研究》

Methodologies and Implementations of Sino-Tibetan Comparisons: The Comparative Studies of Chinese, Bai and Yi Languages. By Feng Wang. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2013.

《漢藏語言比較的方法與實踐－－漢、白、彝比較研究》的出版可謂漢藏語言比較研究的一項碩果。作者在嚴格語音對應的基礎上構擬了原始彝語，利用「還原比較法」分析了白語、彝語和漢語三者的親緣關係。本文認為其最大貢獻在於給出了一套嚴謹的操作方法來離析有著複雜接觸史的語言之間的歷史關係，同時釐清了學界爭論已久的漢語、白語和彝語三種語言的親疏關係。這部專著的出版對於漢藏語研究有著極為重要的參考價值。

The monograph entitled Methodologies and Implementations of Sino-Tibetan Comparisons by Feng Wang is a great contribution to comparative studies of Sino-Tibetan languages. Proto-Yi has been reconstructed on the basis of rigorous sound correspondence in this book. The relationship of Chinese, Bai and Yi has been analyzed by the distillation method. The most important contribution of this book may be the rigorous framework for historical comparison, which can be effectively applied to languages with a long history of contact. In the empirical side, this research ended the debate of the complex relationship between Chinese, Bai and Yi. This book under review is an important reference for comparative studies of Sino-Tibetan languages.