Tangut as a West Gyalrongic language

被引:25
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作者
Lai, Yunfan [1 ]
Gong, Xun [2 ]
Gates, Jesse P. [3 ]
Jacques, Guillaume [3 ]
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst Sci Human Hist, Dept Linguist & Cultural Evolut, Jena, Germany
[2] Univ London, Sch Oriental & African Studies, Dept East Asian Languages & Cultures, London, England
[3] Ecole Hautes Etud Sci Sociales, Ctr Rech Linguist Asie Orientale, Paris, France
基金
欧洲研究理事会;
关键词
Tangut; West Gyalrongic; Sino-Tibetan; subgrouping; linguistic phylogeny; ORIGIN;
D O I
10.1515/flih-2020-0006
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
This paper proposes that Tangut should be classified as a West Gyalrongic language in the Sino-Tibetan/Trans-Himalayan family. We examine lexical commonalities, case marking, partial reduplication, and verbal morphology in Tangut and in modern West Gyalrongic languages, and point out nontrivial shared innovations between Tangut and modern West Gyalrongic languages. The analysis suggests a closer genetic relationship between Tangut and Modern West Gyalrongic than between Tangut and Modern East Gyalrongic. This paper is the first study that tackles the exact linguistic affiliation of the Tangut language based on the comparative method.
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页码:171 / 203
页数:33
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