Rethinking the medials of Old Chinese: Where are the r’s?
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English: This paper re-examines the traditional reconstruction of Old Chinese medial *-rfrom the viewpoint of Tibeto-Burman comparison. It concludes that it is more natural from a typological perspective and more compelling from a comparative perspective to reconstruct *ras a prefix rather than a medial before acute consonants, and perhaps in some cases before grave consonants as well. Such a revision has important implications for our understanding of Old Chinese syllable structure and derivational morphology. keywords: Chinese historical phonology, Sino-Tibetan, Old Chinese, medials, prefixes French: Cet article et un nouvel examen de la reconstruction traditionnelle de la médiale *-rdu chinois archaïque du point de vue du comparatisme tibeto-bèrman. Il conclut qu'il est plus normal, dans une perspective typologique, et plus satisfaisant, dans une perspective comparatiste, de reconstruire *rcomme préfixe, plutôt que comme médiale, devant des consonnes aiguës et peut-être aussi dans certains cas devant les consonnes graves. Cette révision a des implications importantes pour notre compréhension de la structure syllabique et de la morphologie du chinois archaïque. keywords: phonologie historique du chinois, Sino-Tibétain, chinois archaïque, médiales, préfixes
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