The Ancestry of the Chinese Language

These two fields, Linguistics and Sinology, flow together in their concern with the Chinese Language. The central questi

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Table of contents :
Foreword
The ancestry of Chinese: Retrospect and prospect. William S-Y. Wang
Main papers
'A stronger affinity...than could have been produced by accident': A probabilistic comparison of Old Chinese and Tibeto-Burman. William H. Baxter
The system of finals in Sino-Tibetan. Gong Hwang-cherng
Is Chinese genetically related to Austronesian? Paul Jenkuei Li
对华澳语系假说的若干支持材料. Pan Wuyun潘悟云
The historical and prehistorical relationships of Chinese. E.G. Pulleyblank
Some remarks on the ancestry of Chinese. Laurent Sagart
Old Chinese vocabulary： A historical perspective. Sergai Starostin
中国南方语言里的鸟虫类名词词头及相关问题. You Rujie 游汝杰
汉语与亲属语同源根词及附缀成分比较上的择对问题. Zhengzhang Shangfang 郑张尚芳
Comments
An austronesianist looks at Sino-Austronesian. Robert Blust
"Deep-level reconstructions" of linguistic prehistory and the return to the nuclear area. William Meacham
Comments from Pulleyblank
Comments from Sagart
The Chinese-Austronesian connection: A view from the Austronesian morphology side. Stanley Starosta
Comments from Starostin
Bibliography

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