From: george knysh
Message: 59953
Date: 2008-09-10
--- On Wed, 9/10/08, Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:
--- In cybalist@... s.com, "koenraad_elst" <koenraad.elst@ ...>
wrote:
> In V. Mair's series Sino-Platonic Papers, a few Chinese scholars
> have argued for a much larger presence of IE words in Chinese,
> effectively distinguishing Chinese from the other Sino-Tibetan
> languages by its IE component. The most accomplished contributor
> was the late Chang Tsung-Tung, who ends up with over a thousand IE
> words, on closer inspection most of them Germanic.
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... during the third millennium BCE, a Proto-Indo-
European vocabulary showing a Germanic structure became dominant in
Old Chinese, ...
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****GK: Pre- or post-Grimm shift Germanic, acc. to CTT?****