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CONCERNING THE ORIGINS OF TIBETAN brgiad AND CHINESE pwât "EIGHT" BY STUART N. WOLFENDEN In pursuing comparative studies of the vocabularies of the Sino- Tibetan languages we are to-day possessed of' two methods of approach. The first of these, and the older, is that of setting up simple word equations from language to language; the second that of comparison by word families only, taking the family as our smallest operating unit. The first method passes from language to language lifting single words from each, without delving down in any way into what we might call the soil beneath them, so that we might, in fact, term such surface operations the "horizontal" method. We have, as it were, plucked a flower without looking to see from what bush we took it. The second method, on the other hand, seeks in the first place not to set up equations between single words in two or more languages, but first of all to gather the word families of each separate language, and only then, after we have gained a clearer view of the general background of the words composing them, to begin comparative work. This method, from the fact that we
T'oung Pao – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1938
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