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East Asian languages in Lord’s Prayer collections, ca. 1600–1900

Histoire Épistémologie Langage
This paper provides a survey of versions of the Lord’s Prayer translated into several East Asian languages as they are attested in collections since the end of the 16th century. This is when the first relevant example appeared in print, namely a Literary
Sven Osterkamp
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A general method for the statistical evaluation of typological distributions [PDF]

, 2010
The distribution of linguistic structures in the world is the joint product of universal principles, inheritance from ancestor languages, language contact, social structures, and random fluctuation.
Bickel, Balthasar
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The Korean Images of Tibet and Sirhak Scholars: the Plurality of Truths? In Relation to the Issue of the Epistemological Shift in Eighteenth-Century Korea

The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2011
This essay deals with the history of the perception of Tibet in the consciousness of Korea’s intellectuals from the seventh to nineteenth centuries. Since Tibet was peripheral from the viewpoint of Koreans, and direct contact between the two lands was ...
Vladimir Tikhonov
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Two Constraints on Tonal Derivation in Chinese [PDF]

Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2005
This paper aims to further examine two working constraints on tonal derivation proposed in some recent generative studies on Changting, namely One Step Principle (OSP) and Moving Windows Constraint (MWC). Our extension of the scope of discussion to other
Hui-chuan Hsu
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How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan?

Linguistic Discovery, 2015
Certain subbranches of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibeto-Burman) stand out as islands of complexity in a Eurasian sea of simplicity (Bickel and Nichols 2013).
Frenando Zúñiga
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How the Turtle Lost its Shell

HIMALAYA, 2018
This article is a pan-Himalayan story about how the turtle, as a cultural symbol within Sino-Tibetan divination iconography, came to more closely resemble a frog.
Duncan J. Poupard
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Harmony, Head Proximity, and the Near Parallels between Nominal and Clausal Linkers [PDF]

, 2010
This paper puts forward a notion of harmonic word order that leads to a new generalisation over the presence or absence of disharmony: specific functional heads must cross-linguistically obey this notion of harmony absolutely, while for other categories ...
Philip, J
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Is GIVE reliable for genealogical relatedness? A case study of extricable etyma of GIVE in Huī Chinese

Open Linguistics
This study provides an etymological study of one of the basic lexical items GIVE in a sample of 24 varieties of Huī Chinese, a lesser-known transitional group of Sinitic languages.
Hui Man-Shan, Lu Wen
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Reconstruction and Concreteness: The Religious Background and Political Connotations of Gibbon-Themed Poetry and Painting in East Asian Elite Culture from the 12th to the 19th Centuries

Religions
The gibbon was an often-mentioned animal in the elite literati world of China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula during the twelfth to nineteenth centuries, with a large number of poems and paintings touching on the theme of gibbons.
Xuejun Liu
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Macau, Bali and the Malay World: A Gastronomic Perspective

Jurnal Kajian Bali (Journal of Bali Studies)
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, Michael John Hitchcock, Putu Diah Sastri Pitanatri   +2 more
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