It is with great sadness that we learnt of the sudden passing of Prof. Pang-hsin Ting.
Prof. Pang-hsin Ting was native to Rugao, Jiangsu Province, China. He was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province on October 15, 1937. He graduated from National Taiwan University where he obtained his BA and MA degrees. Later he studied in the United States and gained a Ph.D. from the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. He served as Research Fellow and Director at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica; Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Professor of Chinese Linguistics and Agassiz Professor at University of California, Berkeley; and President of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics. In 1986, he was elected as Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan. In 2000, he became an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America.
A knowledgeable and rigorous scholar, Prof. Pang-hsin Ting enjoyed a distinguished reputation in academic circles. He made outstanding contributions to research in Chinese history, dialectology and phonology, Austronesian language studies, and historical comparison between Chinese and Tibetan languages. He was author of several monographs, such as The Origin and Evolution of Languages in Taiwan, The Origin and Evolution of Dialects in Taiwan, Papers on Linguistics by Pang-hsin Ting, Papers on Chinese Linguistics, On the Homology between Chinese and Taiwanese Languages, Lecture Notes on Phonology, and Phonology: Questions and Answers. In 1991, 1999 and 2002 respectively, he published two papers titled “Some Theoretical Issues in the Study of Mandarin Dialects” and “Evolution of the Initial Consonants *g and *γ in the Min Dialects” in the monograph series of Journal of Chinese Linguistics and one paper titled “‘Special Words’ in Chinese Dialects—Coincident Exceptions” in Journal of Chinese Linguistics.
The passing of Prof. Pang-hsin Ting is a great loss to the community of Chinese linguistics. With this message, the editorial board of Journal of Chinese Linguistics would like to express our deepest condolences and pay our highest respect to him.
惊悉著名语言学家丁邦新先生溘然长逝，深感悲痛！
丁邦新先生原籍江苏如皋，1936年10月15日生于浙江杭州，早年毕业于台湾大学，获学士与硕士学位。后赴美国留学，获西雅图华盛顿大学亚洲语文系博士学位。曾任“中央研究院”历史语言研究所研究员兼所长、香港科技大学人文社会科学学院院长、加州大学柏克莱校区中国语言学Agassiz讲座教授、国际中国语言学会会长。1986年当选“中央研究院”院士。2000年当选美国语言学会荣誉会员。
丁邦新先生知识渊博，治学严谨，在学术界享有盛誉。在汉语史、方言学、音韵学、南岛语研究及汉藏语历史比较等领域作出了突出的贡献。著有《台湾语言源流》、《台湾方言源流》、《丁邦新语言学论文集》、《中国语言学论文集》、《汉台语同源论》、《音韵学讲义》、《音韵学答问》等多部著作。于1991年和1999年在本刊的系列丛书发表论文Some Theoretical Issues in the Study of Mandarin Dialects与《上古音声母*g和*γ在闽语中的演变》，于2002年在本刊发表论文《汉语方言的“特字”》。
丁邦新先生的逝世是中国语言学界的重大损失！《中国语言学报》编辑委员会沉痛哀悼丁邦新先生，并向丁先生表达最崇高的敬意！
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