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Differentiated adaptative genetic architecture and language-related demographical history in South China inferred from 619 genomes from 56 populations. [PDF]

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Sun Q   +21 more
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YanHuang Paternal Genomic Resource Suggests A Weakly-differentiated Multi-source Admixture in the Formation of Han Founding Ancestral Lineages. [PDF]

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Wang Z   +32 more
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Sinitic in a Global Perspective

2018
This chapter focuses on the language rupture in East Asia, that is to say, the loss of the common written language known as literary Chinese or Sinitic. The gradual replacement of the cosmopolitan language Sinitic by the written vernaculars was a process similar in some ways to the replacement of Latin and Sanskrit by the European and South Asian ...
exaly   +2 more sources

Diversity in Sinitic Languages

2015
PART I: APPROACHES TO DIVERSITY IN SINITIC LANGUAGES PART II: TYPOLOGICAL STUDIES OF SINITIC LANGUAGES PART III: INDIVIDUAL STUDIES OF LINGUISTIC MICRO ...
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Sinitic languages

2021
This chapter provides a historical and typological overview of Sinitic languages. It first discusses the terminology related to Chinese, clarifying the meaning of ‘language’, ‘dialect’, and ‘standard’ in this context. It then proposes a concise overview of the diachronic development of Sinitic languages, with a focus on diversity and on the concept of ‘
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia   +1 more
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Modality and Mood in Sinitic

2015
After defining auxiliary verbs as a grammatical category in Sinitic languages, this chapter sets out to analyze the notion of modality as expressed primarily by the Chinese modal verbs. Beginning with a brief sketch of their diachronic evolution, we proceed to treat this category in each of three major Sinitic languages, namely, Standard Mandarin, Hong
Chappell, Hilary, Peyraube, Alain
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The origins of Sinitic

2013
A persistent problem in Sino-Tibetan linguistics is that Chinese is characterized by a mix of lexical, phonological, and syntactic features, some of which link it to the Tibeto-Burman languages, others to the Tai-Kadai, Hmong-Mien, and Mon-Khmer families of Southeast Asia.
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