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Old Chinese reconstruction

A response to Schuessler

 | University of Michigan
 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (emeritus)
Published online: 9 February 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.17003.sag
Article outline
  • 1.Transcription, finalness, citation policy, periodization
  • 2.Method: Popperism, complexity, Ockham’s razor, taste for the marginal
  • 3.Comparative issues: Proto-Mǐn, Chinese loanwords to Vietic
  • 4.Prefixes and morphology
  • 5.The phonetic element in the Chinese script
  • 6.Uvulars
    • 6.1Voiced uvular *ɢ
    • 6.2Voiced labio-uvular *ɢʷ-
  • 7.Tibeto-Burman (TB)
  • 8.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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