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

• 主要作者: Lai, Yunfan
• 其他作者: School of Humanities
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2024
• 主題: Arts and Humanities; Sino-Tibetan; Gyalrongic languages; Tangut; Khroskyabs; (Mutual) Implicative entropy; Neighbornet; Historical linguistics
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/181826; https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23025.lai
• 機構: 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...