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On ‘Sino-Bodic’ and other symptoms of neosubgroupitis1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

James A. Matisoff
James A. Matisoff
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University of California, Berkeley
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The higher-order subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman has been recently up for debate. The modern era of TB/Sino-Tibetan subgrouping began with Benedict 1972 (henceforth /STC), where that great comparativist refrained from offering a Stammbaum of the conventional type, leaving several individual languages and language groups unclassified, and placing Jingpho at the centre of diversity of the whole vast TB family (see Fig. 1.) Despite several peculiarities, notably the special position accorded Karenic and the lack of information on Baic (then called ‘Minjia’) or Qiangic, this scheme showed a healthily agnostic approach.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , January 2000 , pp. 356 - 369
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 2000

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