TY  - JOUR
A1  - LaPolla, Randy J.
T1  - On the change to verb-medial word order in proto-Chinese : evidence from Tibeto-Burman
T2  - Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics, ed. by H. Kitamura, T. Nishida, and Y. Nagano
N2  - In attempting to reconstruct the morphosyntax of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, one of the most basic questions to be answered is what was the unmarked word order of the proto-language? Chinese, Bai, and Karen are verb-medial languages, while all of the Tibeto-Burman languages except for Bai and Karen have verb-final word order. lf these languages are all related, as we can assume from lexical correspondences, then either Chinese, Bai and Karen changed from verb-final to verb-medial word order, or the other Tibeto-Burman languages changed trom verb-medial to verb-final order. How we answer the question of which languages changed their word would then give us the answer to the question of word order in Proto-Sino-Tibetan.
KW  - Tibetobirmanische Sprachen
KW  - Sinotibetische Sprachen
KW  - Chinesisch
KW  - Wortstellung
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14872
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157973
UR  - http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/chinesewo.pdf
SP  - 98
EP  - 104
PB  - National Museum of Ethnology
CY  - Osaka
ER  -