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On some endangered Sinitic languages spoken in Northwestern China
This paper will examine one of the most characteristic syntactic properties of languages, namely the case system for the following three Sinitic languages spoken in Northwestern China: Línxià (or Hézhōu), Tāngwāng, Gāngōu, which have been sometimes ...
Alain Peyraube
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Macau, Bali and the Malay World: A Gastronomic Perspective
Macau’s location on the South China Sea suggests that any syncretic activity would have been of Sinitic-Portuguese variety. However, the situation is rather more nuanced, as the culture of the Macanese people, who consider themselves the ‘sons of the ...
Annabel Jackson +2 more
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On the Typology of Basic Locative Constructions in Sinitic Languages [PDF]
This paper aims to study the Basic Locative Constructions (BLCs) in Cantonese and Shanghainese by using a standardized picture elicitation method. Results show that BLCs in both Cantonese and Shanghainese adopt 4 strategies: locative copular, locative ...
Ng, KT
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Plasmodiophora brassicae Woronin, an obligate biotrophic soil-borne pathogen, poses a significant threat to cruciferous crops worldwide by causing the devastating disease known as clubroot. Pathogenic variability in P.
Nazanin Zamani-Noor +1 more
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On the classification of the Ng Yap dialects: some thoughts on the subgrouping of Sinitic languages
Orlandi Giorgio. On the classification of the Ng Yap dialects: some thoughts on the subgrouping of Sinitic languages / Giorgio Orlandi// Вопросы языкового родства. - 2019. - № 2 (17). - С.
Orlandi Giorgio
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Language Contact and Areal Diffusion in Sinitic Languages
Abstract This analysis includes a description of language-contact phenomena such as stratification, hybridization, and convergence for Sinitic languages. It also presents typologically unusual grammatical features for Sinitic such as double-patient constructions, negative existential constructions and agentive adversative pass ives ...
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Data generated and/or analysed in the Humanities and Social Sciences Communications article, "From language to meteorology: kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic ...
Huang, Chu-Ren +3 more
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More on the morphological typology of Sinitic
Chinese is often defined as a ‘textbook example’ of an isolating language, with comparatively few affixes that are usually etymologically transparent (Sagart 2004). After ‘deconstructing’ the notion of the isolating morphological type, I shall discuss data from a number of Chinese dialects spread over the Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, and Shandong ...
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The role of prosody in shaping sinitic morphology: two case studies
In this paper, we discuss two case studies on how prosody has conditioned the evolution of morphology in Mandarin as well as in other Sinitic languages. After a concise overview of Feng’s (1997, 1998, 2001, 2018, inter alia) application of the principles
Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco
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LANGUAGE CONTACT AND AREAL DIFFUSION IN SINITIC LANGUAGES
International audienceThis analysis includes a description of language contact phenomena such as stratification, hybridization and convergence for Sinitic languages.
Chappell, Hilary, M.
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