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published_or_final_version / Chinese / Master / Master of Arts

This dissertation examines the relations between philosophy and etymology in its broadest sense through an analysis of the different words for truth that, during the early history of philosophy, have given way to the singular concept of truth dominating philosophy: alētheia. By inspecting the fate of the related adjectives eteos, etumos, etētumos, the Democritean concept of eteē, the beginnings of etymology, the Socratic method of exetasis, and the repression and relatively recent reemergence of these a case is made for a more complex genealogy of philosophical truth, tightly related to the life of the philosopher and their capacity to speak truth. Through five examples, each representing a different strand of the etymological etymon, this dissertation reviews the rise of alētheia as philosophically dominant conception of truth in Ancient Greek epic and tragic literature and Socratic dialogues; the Democritean concept of eteē, its repression by Plato, and its rediscovery in the early work of Friedrich Nietzsche; the development etymology as a part of grammatical investigation, starting with Plato's Cratylus and its ancient reception; the Socratic method of exetasis and its brief afterlife in the theory of rhetorics; and finally the late lectures at the Collège de France of Michel Foucault, which offer a striking synthesis of the different themes lined out previously through his recapitulation of etumos logos and philosophy as a practice of parrhēsia. In conclusion, a short survey is given of the different post-Nietzschean approaches to the relation between philosophy and etymology – either through the development of etymological irreducibility in the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida, or through the complete evacuation of truth from philosophy by Alain Badiou. A final, preliminary proposal is made to open up the research presented in form of an etics.

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published_or_final_version / Chinese Language and Literature / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / Chinese / Master / Master of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Chinese / Master / Master of Philosophy

手稿覆寫本. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學. / Shou gao fu xie ben. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 1553-1570). / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue. / Chapter 第一章 --- 前言 --- p.3-13 / Chapter 第二章 --- 六書的定義及舉例 --- p.14-65 / Chapter 第三章 --- 甲骨文字六書分析 --- p.66-1480 / Chapter 第一節 --- 象形 --- p.73-547 / Chapter 第二節 --- 指事 --- p.548-600 / Chapter 第三節 --- 會意 --- p.601-1044 / Chapter 第四節 --- 形聲 --- p.1045-1340 / Chapter 第五節 --- 假借 --- p.1341-1431 / Chapter 第六節 --- 待考 --- p.1432-1480 / Chapter 第四章 --- 結論 --- p.1481-1526 / Chapter 第五章 --- 附錄 / Chapter 第一節 --- 索引 --- p.1527-1552 / Chapter 第二節 --- 參考書目 --- p.1553-1563 / Chapter 第三節 --- 甲骨文引書簡稱表 --- p.1564-1570

It is the purpose of this thesis to examine the reasons why Cuzco Quechua, an Amerindian language of Latin America, uses allomorphs, or multiple forms, to represent the minimal semantic units of the language (or morphemes). Starting from the Initial hypothesis that the relatively minor role of allomorphy in contemporary Cuzco Quechua indicates the earlier absence of that allomorphy, the motivation for the introduction and retention of allomorphy is examined, as this relates to a number of characteristic types; Vowel Deletion, affecting final suffixes, Consonant Cluster Simplification and Vowel Dissimilation, affecting suffixes of the verb stem, and the potential allomorphy of the suffixes of Person, pronominal and verbal. Such allomorphy proves to be the result of attempts to contain new morphological developments within existing structural preferences of syllable configuration, and to limit the potential for semantic ambiguity, arising out of identity of form, or homonymy. The unanticipated result of such a study is the implication in all cases considered of an earlier process of affixation, leading to the formation of untypical morph-forms, Allomorphy is seen to be the by-product of compensatory change, introduced to modify the results of previous developments, In particular, the role of the 'empty morph', ni, of nominal Person is found to be implicated in the derivational history of all Quechua suffixes of Person, and its origin imputed to an early role of the verb ni-, 'to say', used with auxiliary function. Based on the evidence of allomorphy, the conclusion is drawn that many of the suffixes of Cuzco Quechua owe their origin to syntactic forms of expression, indicating that the role of the syntactic construction in this typically agglutinative language was formerly more significant than is now recognised.