Historical and Prehistorical Relationships of Chinese
[译]：史前史后中国语言的关系
Edwin.G Pulleyblank 蒲立本

Abstract 摘要

I. Methodology
1. The Principle of Regularity in Sound Change
2. Diachronic Study of Language as a Window on Prehistory
3. Language Contact – Another Window into Unrecorded History and Prehistory

II. Reconstruction of Old Chinese – The Essential Foundation
1. Karlgren’s yod
2. Type A and Type B Syllables
3. The Old Chinese Vowel System
4. / ə～a/ Ablaut as a Morphological Feature in OC
5. Initial Consonants
6. OC Sources of Middle Chinese Initial j-.

III. Chinese (Sino-Tibetan) and Indo-European
1. Previous attempts to show a relationship between Indo-European and Chinese or Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan
2. Archaeological Evidence for the Possibility of Early Contacts between Proto-Sino-Tibetans and Proto-Indo-Europeans
3. Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Sino-Tibetan Phonology and Morphology

IV. Selected Cognates
1. IN. INSIDE
2. WHAT? WHO?
3. JOIN. FIT; CLOSE; COVER; SEIZE, HOLD. HAVE
4. EYE, FACE
5. DOG
6. COW, CATTLE
7. GO, COME
8. YEAR
9. COUNTRY TERRITORY
10. LOOSE
11. LEAF
12. ONE
13. SMALL, YOUNG
14. BIND
15. FATHER
16. MOTHER
17. GRANDFATHER
18. NEGATION
19. SEA
20. SIT, SET, WEST, NEST
21. STAND
22. NAME, MOON, MONTH
23. NIGHT
24. GOOSE

V. Conclusion