Mutual predictiveness of sound correspondences for reconstruction and language subgrouping: the case of Gyalrongic preinitials

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Lai, Yunfan
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2024
• الموضوعات: Arts and Humanities; Sino-Tibetan; Gyalrongic languages; Tangut; Khroskyabs; (Mutual) Implicative entropy; Neighbornet; Historical linguistics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/181826; https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23025.lai

This paper uses Gyalrongic languages, a conservative branch of Sino-Tibetan, to illustrate a new method to evaluate proto-language reconstructions in general historical linguistics and to conduct exploratory analyses in language phylogeny. It first reconstructs a proto-system of Gyalrongic preinitia...