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van Driem, George: Sino-Bodic |
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| Author: van Driem, George |
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| Title: Sino-Bodic |
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| Year: 1997 |
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| Pages: 455-88 |
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| Remark: The hypothesis of a genetic relationship between Chinese and Tibeto-Burman has developed over the course of two centuries, but even today this genetic relationship is not uncontested. Sino-Tibetan was the name given to the language family encompassing Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman languages. New descriptions of poorly documented and previously uncharted Tibeto-Burman languages and advances in Old Chinese historical phonology have enabled detailed linguistic comparison and an historical reconstruction of common morphology. These investigations have resulted in a new hypothesis which has replaced Sino-Tibetan by proposing a closer genetic relationship between Chinese and the Bodic languages. The hypothesis entails that Chinese and Bodic together make up a single branch named Sino-Bodic within the Tibeto-Burman language family.
(source: http://www.iias.nl/host/himalaya/abstracts/sb.html) |
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| In journal:
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African studies, 60, 1997, London.
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