Re: [tied] Re: Of cows and living

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From: tgpedersen

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:44 AM

Subject: [tied] Re: Of cows and living

>   do you think prefixing rather than suffixing is due to the Tibetan
component of Old Chinese?

Sino-Tibetan languages, of which Chinese is one, are prefixing.
Modern Chinese is considered to be exclusively suffixing, due to the
influence of Altaic on the the ruling layer.
 
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Patrick:

 

"considered" by whom????

 

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