On comparative Proto-Mǐn *Dʰ- and putting conjectural morphology in its place

Recent conjectural morphological (‘word family’) approaches to early Chinese assign the aspirated causative verbs of the Mǐn group to Jerry Norman’s comparatively reconstructed Proto-Mǐn voiced aspirated *Dʰ-, proposing on this basis that *Dʰ- reflects prefixation of Old Chinese provenance. In this...

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Main Author: Jonathan Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2021-03-01
Series:Papers in Historical Phonology
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/5515