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2. Prefixation Ability Index (PAI) allows us to see whether two languages can potentially be genetically related
2.1.6. PAI in diachrony
ОглавлениеIt can be supposed that PAI doesn’t change much in diachrony.
PAI of Late Classical Chinese is 0.5 (calculated after Pulleyblank 1995).
PAI of Contemporary Mandarin is 0.5. (calculated after Ross, Sheng Ma 2006).
PAI of Early Old Japanese is 0.13 (calculated after Syromyatnikov 2002).
PAI of contemporary Japanese is 0.13 (calculated after Lavrent’yev 2002).
Probably it should be also tested on other examples but even on the material of these examples we can see that PAI of a language is same in different stages of its history.
