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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Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2021-03-01
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Series: | Papers in Historical Phonology |
Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/5515 |