Overview of Sino-Tibetan morphosyntax

At the earliest reconstructable stage of the development of the Sino-Tibetan (ST) language family, possibly as much as six thousand years ago (Thurgood 1994),1 the proto-language was monosyllabic. Matisoff (2014) reconstructs the syllable canon as *(P²) (P¹) Ci (G¹) (G²) V (ː) (w/y) (Cf) (s).2 It...

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Main Author: LaPolla, Randy J.
Other Authors: Thurgood, Graham
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145805
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English