Common Innovations in Sino-Tibetan Languages

• 作者: Sun Hongkai
• 来源期刊: Macrolinguistics
• 学科: 社会科学
• 关键词: SINO-TIBETAN LANGUAGES HISTORICAL COMPARATIVE Study COMMON innovations CLASSIFICATION
• 年，卷（期）: 2016,（1）
• 页码范围: 1-16
• 页数: 16页
• 分类号: G

摘要

To establish a classification on the basis of genetic linguistics requires two indispensible conditions: common retention, including cognate lexical retention and cognate morphological retention, and common innovation in a language group. The first condition is primary, and is the motivation for classification and the evidence of a genetic relationship. The second condition is secondary and supportive, and is the feature,approach and sign of a language group. This article focuses on common innovations in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Tone, voiceless aspirated stops, affricates, classifiers, noun prefixes for kinship and overlap are six common innovations that are proposed for defining the Sino-Tibetan language family.