The Roots of Old Chinese
Laurent Sagart
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 184] 1999. xi, 255 pp.
Laurent Sagart
List of John Benjamins publications for which Laurent Sagart plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Sino-Tibetan languages
Articles
2017 Old Chinese reconstruction: A response to Schuessler Diachronica 34:4, pp. 559–576 | Reply
2017 Chapter 13. Milk and the Indo-Europeans Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine and Alexander Savelyev (eds.), pp. 291–311 | Chapter
Recent evidence from archaeology and ancient DNA converge to indicate that the Yamnaya culture, often regarded as the bearer of the Proto-Indo-European language, underwent a strong population expansion in the late 4th and early 3rd millennia BCE. It suggests that the underlying reason for that… read more
2016 The wider connections of Austronesian: A response to Blust (2009) Diachronica 33:2, pp. 255–281 | Article
2008 No limits to borrowing: The case of Bai and Chinese Diachronica 25:3, pp. 357–385 | Article
Based on the large amount of Chinese-related basic vocabulary in Bai, scholars like Benedict, Starostin and Zhengzhang have claimed a special phylogenetic proximity between Bai and Chinese. In this paper we show that the Chinese vocabulary in Bai is stratified, forming successive layers of… read more
1993 New Views on Old Chinese Phonology Diachronica 10:2, pp. 237–260 | Article
