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2、sperpetually,takestheplaceofwhatweshouldcalltrulyhis-12torical,”theterritoriesthatweanachronisticallycall“China,”lookingbackfromtheconvenientvantagepointoftheQinunificationin221bce,musthavehadprolificcontactswithneighboringareaseversincetheearlybronzeage.Inrece
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4、sintheearlyChineseeditedliteratureuncoversmoreandmoredetailas5well.I.TheLinguisticSituationattheEveoftheQinUnificationofChinaInprinciple,instancesoflinguisticcontactinprehistory,drivenbyconvergenceinaparticulargeographicalarea,maybereconstructedthroughtheanal
5、ysisofloanwords,calques,ormorphosyntacticanomaliesemergingfromsubstrateinfluences.Thedemonstrationoflinguisticdescent,ontheotherhand,characterizedbydivergencefromacommonancestor,typicallyreliesupontheestablishmentofregularsoundcorrespondencesbetweensemanticall
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7、words,includingtoponomasticdata,increasinglyshowthattheWOLFGANGBEHR,AssociateProfessor,EastAsiaSeminar,UniversityofZurich.Specialties:oldChinesephonology,Sino-Tibetanlinguistics,culturalhistoryofChinesephilologyandgrammatology.E-mail:wolfgang.behr@oas.uzh.chJ
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