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Diversity in Sinitic Languages

open access: yes, 2015
PART I: APPROACHES TO DIVERSITY IN SINITIC LANGUAGES PART II: TYPOLOGICAL STUDIES OF SINITIC LANGUAGES PART III: INDIVIDUAL STUDIES OF LINGUISTIC MICRO ...
Chappell, Hilary
exaly   +4 more sources

Sinitic in a Global Perspective

open access: yes, 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 ...
Peter Francis Kornicki
exaly   +3 more sources

Modality and Mood in Sinitic

open access: yes, 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
core   +3 more sources

Sinitic as a typological sandwich: revisiting the notions of Altaicization and Taicization

open access: yesLinguistic Typology, 2021
Decades of works dedicated to the description of (previously) lesser-known Sinitic languages have effectively dispelled the common myth that these languages share a single "universal Chinese grammar".
Pui Yiu Szeto, Chingduang Yurayong
exaly   +2 more sources

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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Graphemic borrowings and transformations from Sinitic: The case of Quốc Âm Thi Tập

open access: yesJournal of Chinese Writing Systems, 2018
This essay studies Vietnamese demotic Nôm characters used to transcribe Sinitic loanwords in the text of Quốc Âm Thi Tập [Poetry Collection in the National Language] by Nguyễn Trãi (1380–1442) using an interdisciplinary approach that combines graphology,
Trần Trọng Dương
exaly   +2 more sources

Refining the typological profile of Sinitic

open access: yes
REFINING THE TYPOLOGICAL PROFILE OF SINITICHilary ChappellLinguistics and Modern Languages Department, CUHK &EHESS-CRLAO, ParisSinitic languages comprize ten main branches for which there is little intercomprehensibility. If it were possible to calculate the number of distinct dialects in China, Sinitic would undoubtedly prove to be more diverse than ...
Chappell, Hilary
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Egophoric marking in a sinitic language: The case of baoding

open access: yesJournal of Pragmatics, 2019
International audienceThis paper discusses the egophoric function of a sentence-final enclitic particle used in the Mandarin dialect of Baoding (Sinitic, Hebei, northern China) to express intention in an imminent future.
Song, Na
exaly   +2 more sources

The Sinitic Repertoire

2020
Abstract Chapter 9, “The Sinitic Repertoire,” offers the second of three studies in various repertoires of political legitimation. Sinitic universalism, based on Sinitic classical philosophy and the model of the Han Empire, is well studied and understood.
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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.
openaire   +1 more source

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