The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative linguistics and the history of the human language. The Journal contains articles written in English and Russian, as well as scientific reviews, discussions and reports from international linguistic conferences and seminars.
GeorgeStarostin
George Starostin is a Russian researcher at the Center of Comparative Studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities, and a participant in the Santa Fe Institute's Evolution of Human Languages project. He is Managing Editor of the Journal Of Language Relationship.
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Table of Contents (vii)
Contributors (ix)
Note for Contributors (x)
Issue 1
Johann-Mattis LIST, George STAROSTIN, LAI Yunfan.Preface — Old Chinese and Friends: New approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area (1)
JIN Lixin, HUO Wenwen The Old Chinese Origin of Middle Chinese Voice Sibilants z/ʑ (7)
MA KunA study of phonological issues in the text variants of Xiaochu and Dachu hexagrams, Zhouyi (18)
Johann-Mattis LIST, Nathan W. HILL, Christopher J. FOSTERTowards a standardized annotation of rhyme judgments in Chinese historical phonology (and beyond) (26)
SHEN RuiqingThe monosyllabicization of Old Chinese and the birth of Chinese Writing: a hypothesis on the co-evolution of the Chinese language and its writing system (44)
GONG XunChinese loans in Old Vietnamese with a sesquisyllabic phonology (55)
ZHANG Shuya, Guillaume JACQUES, LAI YunfanA study of cognates between Gyalrong languages and Old Chinese (73)
Issue 2
Andrey NIKULINA reconstruction of Proto-Jê phonology and lexicon (93)
Giorgio ORLANDIOn the classification of the Ng Yap dialects: some thoughts on the subgrouping of Sinitic languages (128)
George STAROSTINChinese basic lexicon from a diachronic perspective: implications for lexicostatistics and glottochronology (153)