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BERNHARD KARLGREN AS 高本汉

Author(s): Yuen Ren Chao
Source: Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol. 7, No. 1 (JANUARY 1979), p. 144
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 JOURNAL OF CHINESE LINGUISTICS VOL.7, 1979

BERNHARP karlgren 益 H 足
By Yuen Ren Chao

With the passing on last October of Professor Bernhard

Karlgren we have lost one of the most Chinese of Western
sinologists.エ had the good fortune of meeting him in the
19201s and translating his important work Etudes sur la Pho
nologie Chinoise [ 1 ]. In this brief note エ just wish to
recall our first meeting, when エ visited him in Stockholm•
After エ was introduced to him in English, he said in perfect
Mandarin:れ姓高；力权东牽Iシ（ノ、，叻ゅれ…高本
But like many Western-trained Chinese, he talked with me
with quite a free sprinkling of Chinese words, or vice
versa. For, with the self-confidence of handling Chinese at
will, he would not be afraid of being considered inadequate
in his knowledge of Chinese when the use of what エ call
'skipantslL2 J is indulged in freely. For both 免;f
we native 太 ノ、feel quite at home with each other in our
二/又"^ •

[1 ] Stockholm, 1915*. 1■函省於对Wt見 Shanghai 1940.

し2] A skipant is my term for a borrowing from a majority
language into a minority language, a phenomenon which is
observed in speakers of all the minority languages in a
large country. For the origin of this term see my Language
and Symbolic Systems, Cambridge 1968, p. 147.

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