@Tao_Collective @KIRINPUTRA @viroraptor @homosappiest @xiao_collective @catielila @BadLingTakes They might claim they have but I wouldn’t characterize it that way. Both reconstructions are fundamentally based on projecting MC backwards into phonological categories induced from analysis of poetic rhyming and xiesheng series.
@Tao_Collective @KIRINPUTRA @viroraptor @homosappiest @xiao_collective @catielila @BadLingTakes B & S use Norman’s Proto-Min and extra-Sinitic borrowings as supplement to that method. Zhengzhang’s comparative supplements are highly unsystematic.
@Tao_Collective @KIRINPUTRA @viroraptor @homosappiest @xiao_collective @catielila @BadLingTakes Based only on a more or less strict application of the comparative method, I doubt you could reconstruct to earlier than Han. Much of the clustering and morphology they reconstruct is gone by then.
@Tao_Collective @KIRINPUTRA @viroraptor @homosappiest @xiao_collective @catielila @BadLingTakes Oh, also, lexical items aren’t reconstructed unless they are attested in pre-Qin texts.
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