What is Sino-Tibetan? Snapshot of a Field and a Language Family in Flux
What is Sino-Tibetan? Snapshot of a Field and a Language Family in Flux
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1749-818x.2008.00061.x
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发表时间：
2008-05-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Handel, Zev
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作者：
Handel, Zev
汉藏语系是世界上最大的语系之一，包括数百种语言，从印度东北部到东南亚半岛，有超过10亿人使用。该家族中最着名的语言是汉语，藏语和缅甸语。虽然承认家庭的存在已有近200年的历史，但直到20世纪后半叶才在重建家庭历史方面取得重大进展。近几十年来，由于新数据和新方法的爆炸式增长，这一进展加快了。与此同时，一些有趣的争议出现在该领域，集中在这样的问题，如分组和重建方法。
Sino-Tibetan is one of the great language families of the world, containing hundreds of languages spoken by over 1 billion people, from Northeast India to the Southeast Asian peninsula. The best-known languages in the family are Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese. Although the existence of the family has been recognized for nearly 200 years, significant progress in reconstructing the history of the family was not achieved until the latter half of the twentieth century. In recent decades, this progress has accelerated, thanks to an explosion of new data and new approaches. At the same time, a number of interesting controversies have emerged in the field, centered on such issues as subgrouping and reconstruction methodology.