{"id":789,"date":"2007-10-03T00:40:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T16:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/indo-european-vocabulary-in-old-chinese\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T09:43:09","slug":"indo-european-vocabulary-in-old-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/indo-european-vocabulary-in-old-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Indo-European Vocabulary in Old Chinese’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sino-Platonic Papers<\/em><\/a> has rereleased for free Indo-European Vocabulary in Old Chinese. A New Thesis on the Emergence of Chinese Language and Civilization in the Late Neolithic Age<\/a> (2.9 MB PDF), by Tsung-tung Chang of Goethe-Universit\u00e4t. <\/p>\n

Here’s the table of contents: <\/p>\n

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  1. Recent developments in the field of historical linguistics<\/li>\n
  2. Monosyllabic structure of Chinese words and Indo-European stems<\/li>\n
  3. Tonal accents of Middle Chinese<\/li>\n
  4. Preliminaries on the comparison of consonants and vowels<\/li>\n
  5. Some IE stems corresponding to Chinese words of entering tone<\/li>\n
  6. Middle Chinese tones and final consonants of IE stems<\/li>\n
  7. Some IE stems corresponding to Chinese words of rising tone<\/li>\n
  8. Some IE stems corresponding to Chinese words of vanishing tone<\/li>\n
  9. Some IE stems corresponding to Chinese words of level tone<\/li>\n
  10. Reconstruction of Middle Chinese vocalism according to Yün-ching<\/li>\n
  11. Old Chinese vocalism<\/li>\n
  12. Vocalic correspondences between Chinese and IE<\/li>\n
  13. Initials of Old Chinese<\/li>\n
  14. Initial consonant clusters in Old Chinese as seen from IE-stems<\/li>\n
  15. Proximity of Chinese to Germanic<\/li>\n
  16. Relation of Old Chinese to neighboring languages<\/li>\n
  17. Emergence of Chinese Empire and language in the middle of the third millennium B.C.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Appendix<\/strong><\/p>\n