<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi All,<div class="">I thought I sent the message pasted below this one to the list back on May 1, but I sent it to the wrong address. </div><div class="">Btw, now that we’ve seen the article sent by Lai Yunfan, we have a nice case of reproducibility, a keystone of science, as that article used similar data and the same software package as the Zang et al. article I am sending now, and also some of the same concepts and data that David Bradley used in the article attached. Plus there was my 2001 article (<a href="http://www.randylapolla.info/Papers/LaPolla_2001_The_Role_of_Migration_and_Language_Contact_in_the_Development_of_the_Sino-Tibetan_Language_Family.pdf" class="">here</a>), which relied largely on historical sources. The dovetailing of all of this work makes the case for the origin of the Sino-Tibetan family being in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and the association with Yang Shao culture quite strong.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Randy<br class=""><div><br class="">Begin forwarded message:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Randy J. LaPolla" <<a href="mailto:randy.lapolla@gmail.com" class="">randy.lapolla@gmail.com</a>></span><br class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Re: two important articles</b></span><br class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">1 May 2019 at 3:57:09 PM GMT+8</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:tibeto-burman-linguistics-owner@listserv.linguistlist.org" class="">tibeto-burman-linguistics-owner@listserv.linguistlist.org</a></span><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>Hi All,<br class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">For those interested in the question of the Sino-Tibetan homeland and the development of the family, here are two very useful recent articles, one as attachment, one as a link:<br class=""></div></div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/i74fimoxns2sicm/Zang et al 2019 Phylogenetic evidence for Sino-Tibetan origin in northern China in the Late Neolithic Nature.pdf.pdf?dl=0" class="">https://www.dropbox.com/s/i74fimoxns2sicm/Zang%20et%20al%202019%20Phylogenetic%20evidence%20for%20Sino-Tibetan%20origin%20in%20northern%20China%20in%20the%20Late%20Neolithic%20%20Nature.pdf.pdf?dl=0</a><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>Randy<br class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: white;" class="">-----</span><br class=""><span class="" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;"><b class="">Randy J. LaPolla, PhD FAHA</b> （羅</span><span class="" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Song">仁地</font></span><span class="" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">）</span><br class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Professor of Linguistics, with courtesy appointment in Chinese, School of Humanities </span><br class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Nanyang Technological University</span><br class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="background-color: white;" class="">HSS-03-45, 48 Nanyang Avenue </span></span></span><span class="" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">| </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="background-color: white;" class="">Singapore 639818</span></span></span><br class=""><a href="http://randylapolla.net/" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: white; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">http://randylapolla.net/</a><br class=""><span style="background-color: white; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Most recent books:</span><br class=""><i class="" style="background-color: white; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">The Sino-Tibetan Languages, 2nd Edition (</i><span style="background-color: white; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">2017)</span><br class=""><a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Sino-Tibetan-Languages-2nd-Edition/LaPolla-Thurgood/p/book/9781138783324" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">https://www.routledge.com/The-Sino-Tibetan-Languages-2nd-Edition/LaPolla-Thurgood/p/book/9781138783324</a><br class=""><i class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Sino-Tibetan Linguistics </i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">(2018)</span><br class=""><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Sino-Tibetan-Linguistics/LaPolla/p/book/9780415577397" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://www.routledge.com/Sino-Tibetan-Linguistics/LaPolla/p/book/9780415577397</a><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></font><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""></div></div></div></div></body></html>