Tonogenesis as an index of areal relationships in East Asia

• Main Author: Pulleyblank, Edwin G.
• Other Authors: University of British Columbia
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178879
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

One of the anonymous publisher's readers of my new book, Middle Chinese, remarked: "The problem of substrata and diffusion is given little weight and internal development is taken for granted where many will see the results of outside influences, especially as regards the Altaic connection...