小川尚義對漢語研究的貢獻

Achievement in Chinese Linguistic Studies by Naoyoshi Ogawa

小川尚義是台灣語言學的先驅。本文的目的在介紹小川尚義在漢語語言學上的成就。他是日本語言學之父東京帝國大學語言學系教授上田萬年的大弟子，1896年來台之後就把他一生的青壯年華奉獻給台灣。他在台灣總督府期間主編了大小閩南語辭典多部。但是他卻嚴肅地運用他的語言學學養，對台灣的漢語和南島語進行了語言學的研究。本文介紹他在漢語語言學學的成就，包括中古漢字音的擬測、閩南語比較音韻學、台灣話語音學以及語言地理學的研究成果。

This paper aims at introducing the achievement in Chinese linguistic studies by Naoyoshi Ogawa, a pioneer of linguistic studies in Taiwan. He was the first student of Professor Kazutoshi Ueda of Tokyo University, founding father of Japanese linguistics. Ogawa spent all his young years in Taiwan. Ogawa edited a great number of Taiwanese dictionaries when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. Although he was merely a compiler in the Educational Bureau of the government-general, he made important contributions in the researches of languages in Taiwan including Chinese and Formosan. His achievement in linguistic studies encompasses the historical phonological study of Middle Chinese, the comparative linguistic study of dialects of Southern Min, the phonetic study of Taiwanese Southern Min, and the geolinguistic study of languages in Taiwan. I do not touch on another aspect of Ogawa's achievement in the study of Formosan languages. The reader can refer to the papers by Paul Li and Tsuchida in this issue of JTLL.