Sino-Tibetan (was: Re: Arabic and IE)

[Alexis Manaster-Ramer]

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Sagart is, of course.  The Chinese words he cites as evidence
of Chinese being related to Austronesian are presumably, for
those of us who do not accept his conclusion, not mere
coincidences but Austronesian borrowings into Old Chinese.
Am I missing something?  Is the question whether anyone
BESIDES Laurent Sagart is finding such borrowings?
I would like to hear if there is.

AMR


On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Scott DeLancey wrote:

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> On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Jim Rader wrote:
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> > In reference to Tsu-Lin Mei and Jerry Norman, I think you mean
> > Austroasiatic rather than Austronesian, don't you?  The article I have
> > a reference to is "The Austroasiatics in ancient south China: some
> > lexical evidence" (_Monumenta Serica_ 32 [1976], p. 274-301).
>
> You're right, of course.  But I was sure, when I wrote, and still
> am, that I remember someone in those days turning up Austronesian
> etymologies as well.  Can anybody jog my memory on this?
>
> Scott DeLancey
> Department of Linguistics
> University of Oregon
> Eugene, OR 97403, USA
>
> delancey at darkwing.uoregon.edu
> http://www.uoregon.edu/~delancey/prohp.html
>