1.What kinds of foreign evidence are used in comparative reconstruction?
2.What is alliteration? What is rhyming?
3.What is an initial? What is a final?
4.How is Fanqie used to indicate pronunciation?
5.How is Fanqie an improvement over the previous ways to indicate pronunciation?
6.What can rhyme dictionaries tells us?
7.How can semantic-phonetic compounds be used for historical reconstruction?
8.Why is dialectal/foreign evidence different in kind from that of written materials?
9.Why is Chinese called a Sino-Tibetan language?
10.What kind of evidence is used to figure out genetic relationship between languages?