Reconstructing the *s- prefix in Old Chinese
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--English abstract This paper presents the treatment of the Old Chinese *sprefix in the Baxter-Sagart system of Old Chinese reconstruction. The main functions of the prefix are to increase the valency of verbs and to derive oblique deverbal nouns. The phonetic evolutions to Middle Chinese of *swith different kinds of OC root initials are discussed. Two salient features of the proposed system are (1) that *splus plain sonorants go to MC sor sr-, and (2) that spreceding voiced obstruents becomes voiced. Problems within a competing proposal by Mei Tsu-lin, in which OC *sdevoices both sonorants and voiced obstruents, are pointed out.
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