Response to Ho Dah-an

ABSTRACT: Ho Dah-an's 2016 review of our book Old Chinese : A New Reconstruction (2014) contains little discussion of the book's main themes or proposals: he focuses instead on "errors" which, according to him, "reflect the outdated concepts of the authors and the insufficiency of their basic training." In this response to Ho's review, we consider his discussion of these "errors." On two points (discussed below), he has actually found errors (a faulty interpretation of an entry in the Shuōwén jiězì and one incorrect citation), which we are glad to be able to correct. Neither materially affects our conclusions. The other "errors" that Ho mentions are not errors at all: in most cases they reflect basic misunderstandings on Ho's part: of our book, of other sources, and of basic principles of historical linguistics. Since some of these misunderstandings relate to general issues in the reconstruction of Old Chinese, we attempt here to correct these misunderstandings in order to set the record straight. 摘要: 摘要 何大安 2016 年對我們的《上古漢語新構擬》(2014 年)一書的評論中幾 乎沒有討論該書的主要主題或建議：相反，他把重點放在給我們挑錯 上。據他說，這些"錯誤""反映了作者過時的概念和他們基礎訓練 的不足"。本文是我們對何氏評論的回應。我們討論了他所說的那些 "錯誤"。有兩點他真的發現了錯誤(對《說文解字》中一個條目的錯 誤解釋和一個錯誤的引用)，我們很高興能夠有機會改正。但這兩個錯 誤都沒有對我們的結論產生實質性的影響。何氏提到的其他"錯誤" 根本不是錯誤：在大多數情況下，它們反映了何氏的基本誤解–––對 我們的書，對其他資料，以及對歷史語言學的基本原則。鑒於其中的 一些誤解事關上古漢語構擬的大局，我們試圖糾正這些誤解，以正視 聽。