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Nicholas 3. Bodman, 0085 46 Westwood Road, New Haven 15, CONN. Prof. 3ernhard Karlgren, August 31, 1948 Östasiatiska 3amlingarna, Storgatan 41, Stockholm 14, SVEDEN. Dear Professor Karlgren: It was a great pleasure meeting you on your visit to Yale last May. I greatly enjoyed our talk at the luncheon gathering. Professor Lo said that he gave you a reprint of my article on and I hope you will not b...
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Nicholas 3. Bodman, 0085 46 Westwood Road, New Haven 15, CONN. Prof. 3ernhard Karlgren, August 31, 1948 Östasiatiska 3amlingarna, Storgatan 41, Stockholm 14, SVEDEN. Dear Professor Karlgren: It was a great pleasure meeting you on your visit to Yale last May. I greatly enjoyed our talk at the luncheon gathering. Professor Lo said that he gave you a reprint of my article on and I hope you will not be too critical of this first effort. I do apologize for a number of misprints that remained uncorrected in the article. Professor Lo has now returned to China, but Professor Li Fang-kuei is now here for a year and I know he will have much of interest to teach me. You may remehber that I plan to write my dis- sertation on some aspects of Han phonology. In this connection, I am just starting a long project based on your Grammata Serica, and I thought that oerhaps you might be able to offer some helpful sugges- tions. It is my intention to make out a separate card for each of the numbered items in Grannata erica, using your index numbers, definitions, and references to the source of first aopearance. I will later add additional information of particular interest to me, such as corrected meanings (as given by you, for instance, in your critical o8ses on the Shih), comments of Han time commentatots, pertinent notes from Shuo Wen, Shih Ming, etc. The cards will first be filed in some alphabetical order, similar to your Analytical Dictionary, but according to the Archaic reconstruction, so that words of similar meaning and pronuneiation, even if represented by different graphse, will be grouped together. There are many interesting aspects to this phase alone. One of my other objectives is then to see if there is any vay of ascertaining characterletics of the language of the separate sources and to find out if any in?ormation on Archaic dialects can be obtained. Here I would like to ask you a question. Could you tell me how you went about finding the earliest use of a certain graoh? Another way in which the cards could be sorted is by English meanings. It would probably be safer not to try to simplify or abbrevi- ate your de?initions, although a sort by meanings sould make for much repetition. Although it is a bit early perhaps to attempt linguistic comparison, such a list should be a valuable tool to those interested in such work. It is possible that I might be able to publish some of the results obtained by this method, although this would have to wait for several years. In the meantime, however, the collection of cards would be an invaluable source of material for my own work. I have thought that many of these problems have probably already occured to you, and that your opinion would be very useful for me. I have just sketohed what I have in mind: your experience will of course bring to mind many of the possible ramifications that are involved, and will probably suggest other things to you that have not yet occurred tome. At least you would be doing me a service by letting me know your opinion on this project. Hoping to have the pleasure of hearing from you, I anm Respectfully, None <<. Bolanern
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