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

• Main Author: Lai, Yunfan
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Sino-Tibetan; Gyalrongic languages; Tangut; Khroskyabs; (Mutual) Implicative entropy; Neighbornet; Historical linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/181826; https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23025.lai
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...