里面讲到目前构拟的辅音系统遭到一些人质疑,因为是p b bh(没有ph),看上去不大平衡,但是支持者也举了一些理由,其中一条居然跟吴语有关:
Finally there are rare but attested systems which show the same sort of imbalance of features necessitated by the traditional reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. Thus in the Chinese of a large region of China around Shanghai, called Wu, we have p, ph, and bh which are displayed in Table 3.11. This system provides a kind of mirror image to that traditionally reconstructed by Indo-Europeanist (i.e. Proto-Indo-European had *bh but no *ph while Wu has bh but no b). Given the existence of a rare system such as that of Wu, it is hard to deny the possibility of an equally rare system in Proto-Indo-European.
转自:<<THE OXFORD INTRODUCTION TO PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN AND THE PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN WORLD>> |