Re: Volcae and Volsci

From: tgpedersen
Message: 57090
Date: 2008-04-09

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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> > Is Chinese the result of a TS + Tai-Kadai creolization?
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> I don't think we can prove Old Chinese had verb inflection.
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> Torsten
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> Old-Chinese (AD -1000) can be proved to have cases for pronouns.
> At least three cases : subject, accusative, genitive.
> It can be proved to have verbal morphology : #m-Root-s
> It can be proved to have apophony : *nap "enter" *nop "interior".
>

I know, but no inflection for number and person in verbs.


Torsten