The Causative s- and Nominalizing -s in Old Chinese and Related Matters in Proto-Sino-Tibetan

This paper shows that the causative *s- prefix and the nominalizing *-s suffix are both present in Proto-Sino-Tibetan. (1) In particular, it shows that Old Chinese voicing alternation in intransitive/transitive verbs, e.g. 敗 *brads ‘ruined, defeated’ /敗 *prads ‘to ruin, to defeat’, is due to the dev...

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Published in:語言暨語言學 2012-01, Vol.13 (1), p.001-028
Main Author: 梅祖麟(Mei, Tsu-lin)
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A＆HCI
causative s- prefix
MEDLINE
nominalizing -s suffix
perfective -s suffix
Scopus
Sino-Tibetan morphology
SSCI
THCI
使動化 s- 前綴
原始漢藏語的形態
名物化 -s 後綴
既事式 -s 後綴
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causative s- prefix
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nominalizing -s suffix
perfective -s suffix
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Sino-Tibetan morphology
SSCI
THCI
使動化 s- 前綴
原始漢藏語的形態
名物化 -s 後綴
既事式 -s 後綴
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