Re: [tied] Re: Of cows and living

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From: tgpedersen

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:40 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.
>   
>   ***
>   Patrick:
>
>   "considered" by whom????
>
>   ***

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

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Patrick:

 

Thank God we have a higher level of linguistic competence in PIE studies, or it would simply be a waste of all our times.

 

That proposal is unbelievable!

 

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