Re: "easiest" languages, SE Asian word-order typologies (was Rating Languages)

>Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:51:21 +0200
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>Well, what you sketch is more or less the academic received opinion,
>too. Unless you think it's caused by areal norms and/or a non-sinitic
>substrate in the north of China - people appear to be arguing that
>the language on the tortoise shells isn't sinitic at all.
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>Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.valdyas.org
Really.  I hadn't heard that about the tortoise shells.  Also, I've usually
heard poeple try to explain it the other direction -- as if all the
divergences were due to Tai influences on the southern dialects.  I just
never have been able to buy that one.

Adam


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