ABSTRACT
The correspondence sets presented in this section are listed alphabetically by English gloss. A stroke-order index to Chinese characters and an alphabetical index to T and OT forms in the data will be found in Part IV. Every entry is supplied with one or more reconstructed ST forms from which the OC/MC and TB forms are derived as indicated by arrows. ST forms separated by a slash, ‘/’, are considered to be alternate forms in the proto-language which are supported by evidence on the Chinese and TB sides. Reconstructions separated by ‘∼’ are forms for each of which supporting evidence is present on one side but not on the other. For the nonce they are viewed as alternate forms in the proto-language. It is, however, quite possible that they are members of cognate word families but are not themselves directly cognate. It is equally possible that such examples are directly cognate and that the features conditioning the differences between them are not yet clear. For example, in the case of salt/salty https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003077367/ce62276e-4896-42b6-9150-91fe6f29aa21/content/inq_chapter3_35_1.tif"/> the Chinese evidence suggests a voiced initial while the TB materials point to lack of voicing. The forms are treated here as competing variants in the proto-language. However, Chang and Chang (1977–78:170) have presented interesting evidence that the Chinese voiced initial in this example developed from an original voiceless consonant preceded by a nasal element of some sort. All such sets of ‘alternates’ should be further investigated with the object of uncovering evidence of this sort. In a small number of cases it is possible to reconstruct for the proto-language alternate forms which had parallel differences in sound and meaning and which can thus be considered members of the same word family. Matisoff (1972:17) has coined for this relationship the term ‘allofamy’; and the symbol https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003077367/ce62276e-4896-42b6-9150-91fe6f29aa21/content/inq_chapter3_35_2.tif"/> which he uses to represent it has been adopted here. The following is an example of a word set of this type:
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