Center of Excellence in Southeast Asian Linguistics

Publication Keyword: reconstruction

Reconstruction of Proto-Tai negators

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Based on comparative data from 64 modern Tai varieties, we propose that Proto-Tai had three distinct negators, namely *ɓawB, *mi and *pajB. These morphemes were...

Proto-Southwestern Tai revised

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Southwestern Tai (SWT) is the best studied among the three main branches of the Tai language family according to Li (1960)’s classification. Because discrepancies among...