[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????
>
> ***

Sagart credits Zhao Jie (1995) and Hashimoto (1986) for that
proposal.


Torsten