Tibetan Sdud “Folds of a Garment”, the Character 卒, and the *St-Hypothesis

Tibetan Sdud “Folds of a Garment”, the Character 卒, and the *St-Hypothesis

Many years ago Professor Li Fang-kuei wrote a most penetrating study entitled ''Certain Phonetic Influences of the Tibetan Prefixes upon the Root Initials'', part of which dealt with the function and distribution of the Tibetan prefix s-, and which therefore has some relevance to the subject of the present paper. His article greatly stimulated my interest in the morphology and morphophonemics of Classical Tibetan. However, my greatest indebtedness to Professor Li derives from his important contributions as a teacher and scholar in the field of Chinese linguistics. I am therefore very happy indeed to submit this article to the issue of this journal which honors him on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.