Of jackal and hide and Old Sinitic reconstructions
Language Log 2018-12-16
Summary:
[The first page of this post is a guest contribution by Chris Button.] I've been thinking a little about the word represented by chái 豺* which I would normally reconstruct as *dzrəɣ (Zhengzhang *zrɯ) ignoring any type a/b distinctions. However, it occurred to me that a reconstruction of *dzrəl (for which Zhengzhang would presumably have […]