Verbal reduplication in Sinitic
, 2014 The main aim of this paper is to underpin the connection between the semantic relationship binding the constituents of verbs and the formal and semantic properties of their reduplication in Sinitic. We first discuss in detail verbal and adjectival reduplication in Standard Mandarin, the best described Chinese language; we also collected data on ...
Arcodia, Giorgio F. +2 more
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Problems of methodology and explanation in word order universals research [PDF]
, 2010 Ever since the publication of Greenberg 1963, word order typologists have attempted to formulate and refine implicational universals of word order so as to characterize the restricted distribution of certain word order patterns, and in some cases have ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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On Sinitic influence on Macanese
Language Ecology, 2017 AbstractMacanese, the near-extinct Portuguese creole of Macao, is an understudied contact language with strong Malayo-Portuguese features. It is also characterised by Sinitic influence, which however has sometimes been downplayed in the literature (seeAnsaldo and Matthews 2004).
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Relationship of age-related hearing loss with cognitive decline and dementia in Sinitic tonal language-speaking populations: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2022 Fu X +5 more
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Los corpus y otros métodos de elicitación sintáctica en un estudio del sistema aspectual del dialecto gong'an [PDF]
, 2013 This paper is part of a larger project on Gong’an dialect, which is based on the data collected from field and aims to identify the aspect markers in Gong’an dialect and provide a systematic and comparative account of the distributional
Cai, Hong
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Causes and effects of Substratum, Superstratum and Adstratum influence, with reference to Tibeto-Burman languages [PDF]
, 2010 Language contact has become a major focus of inquiry in historical and typological linguistics in the last twenty years, spurred in a large part by the publication of Thomason & Kaufman (1988), which tried to make sense of a large amount of language ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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On Buddhism, Divination and the Worldly Arts: Textual Evidence from the Theravāda Tradition [PDF]
, 2014 This essay attends to the sticky web of indigenous terminology concerning divination and other so-called “mundane” or “worldly” arts, focusing primarily upon Buddhist canonical texts preserved in Pāli, augmented by references to commentarial and ...
Fiordalis, David
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Genomic formation of Tibeto-Burman speaking populations in Guizhou, Southwest China. [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2023 Chen J +17 more
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Language Contact and Areal Diffusion in Sinitic Languages
, 2001 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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Fine-Scale Population Admixture Landscape of Tai-Kadai-Speaking Maonan in Southwest China Inferred From Genome-Wide SNP Data. [PDF]
Front Genet, 2022 Chen J +21 more
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