Re: [tied] Re: Of cows and living

----- Original Message -----

From: tgpedersen

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 5:22 AM

Subject: [tied] Re: Of cows and living

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
>
> Torsten, I think Old Chinese is fairly straightforward but I thank
you for the nice and very interesting summary.
>
> I am much more concerned about why Sino-Tibetan presents itself as
a prefixing language.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> It seems to be there is another, as yet unidentified "player" at
the table.
>

I'd answer the question if I knew what it was.


Torsten

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Patrick:

 

Then try this:

 

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

 

And, secondarily, what other language families showing prefixing might Tibetan related to?

 

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