Abstract:
The Control of the Pronunciation and Meaning by Homonymic Investigation annotated pronunciation and meaning of Buddhist literature collectively. In a sense, the work gave a relatively wholesome summarization of words and expressions in midancient Chinese. The doublepronunciation words, slang words, borrowed words, and the recorded evolution of word meaning from the past to the present annotated in the work is of academic importance to study of the history of the Chinese language. As a synchronic paradigm of Buddhist terms and original source of vernacular words of midancient Chinese, the Control of the Pronunciation and Meaning by Homonymic Investigation recorded the gradual course of evolution from classic to vernacular Chinese and the principle of evolution of Chinese semantic system.
