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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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The experiential perfect as an evidential marker in Sinitic languages

, 2001
This paper investigates a set of verb enclitics in Sinitic languages, including Mandarin kuo55, Cantonese Yue kwo33, and Shanghainese Wu ku31 as well as functionally-related preverbal markers in the Min dialects such as Taiwanese bat and Fuzhou peik31 ...
Chappell, Hilary
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The myth of a universal sinitic grammar : the case of basic locative constructions

, 2015
Chinese is often considered as a single language spoken from the far Northeastern China to the Southern edge of the territory. Not only are there ten main language groups within the Sinitic language family, which many researchers tend to call “dialect ...
Ng, Kathleen Teresa, 伍愷欣
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Surpass comparatives in Sinitic and beyond: Typology and grammaticalization

, 2010
The Surpass (or Exceed) comparative is a widespread feature of Sinitic languages found in almost all 'dialect' groups. This article investigates the nature of Surpass constructions in Southern Chinese varieties with a focus on Cantonese, and in unrelated
Ansaldo, Umberto, Ansaldo, U, Umberto Ansaldo   +2 more
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China, Chinese, Sinitic: a short conceptual (pre)history

, 2012
China, Chinese, Sinitic: a short conceptual (pre)history; Talk in St ...
Behr, Wolfgang, Behr, Wolfgang (5736026)
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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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On some endangered Sinitic languages spoken in Northwestern China

, 2017
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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: The case of object marking constructions in Sinitic languages

, 2006
This article treats the diversity of object marking or ‘disposal' constructions in Sinitic languages. These constructions are used to highlight an affected referential object, typically corresponding to accusatively case-marked nouns in inflectional ...
Chappell, Hilary
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Complementation in Waxiang: an unclassified Sinitic language of Hunan

, 2023
International audienceCOMPLEMENTATION IN WAXIANG, AN UNCLASSIFIED SINITIC LANGUAGE OF HUNANHilary M. Chappell 曹茜蕾Chinese University of Hong Kong & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, ParisThis paper will explore the nature of complementation ...
Chappell, Hilary
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Pan-Sinitic object markers: morphology and syntax.

, 2013
International audienceIn Chinese languages, when a direct object occurs in a non-canonical position preceding the main verb, this SOV structure can be morphologically marked, for example, by kā 共 < ‘to accompany’ in Southern Min, lau11 㧯 < ‘to mix’ in ...
Chappell, Hilary
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