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The Odae chinŏn (Five Great Mantras) and Dhāraṇī Collections in Premodern Korea
Religions, 2022 The Five Great Mantras (Odae chinŏn) is one of the most widely circulated collections of Buddhist dhāraṇīs in premodern Korea, having been published or existing in several variant editions during the Chosŏn period (1392–1910).
Richard D. McBride
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The clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae: A profile update
Molecular Plant Pathology, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 89-106, February 2023., 2023 The clubroot pathogen wants to conquer the world, and how better than through social media. This Plasmodiophora brassicae profile highlights how the growers are in a constant fight with this devastating pathogen. Art by C.‐É. Brochu. Abstract Background Plasmodiophora brassicae is the causal agent of clubroot disease of cruciferous plants and one of ...
Muhammad Asim Javed +10 more
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Vowel Quality in Xiang Non-Lexical Hesitation Markers: New Forms of Typological Evidence?
Languages, 2023 Xiang (hsn) remains a poorly understood grouping within Sinitic, with no satisfactory conclusions on how to demarcate its boundaries or define its subgroupings.
Robert Marcelo Sevilla
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Learning and teaching Chinese as a foreign language: A scoping review
Review of Education, Volume 10, Issue 3, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Despite the growth of research in learning and teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL), no scoping review of research published in international, anglophone journals has been published so far. A total of 289 journal articles published in 95 journals were identified and used to provide a bibliometric mapping of research in CFL over three ...
Jessica Chan +3 more
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Topolects in Motion: Narrative Possibilities for Language Vitality among Mobile Chinese‐Canadians
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 431-452, August 2022., 2022 This article examines the language autobiographies of 12 Chinese‐Canadians to address how topolects (Ch. fangyan)—spoken language varieties marking place‐based belonging—formulate identity once removed from their original places. We found that narrators located topolects in their pasts and homelands, while associating standard Mandarin with mobility ...
Shannon Ward +2 more
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Voice and Little v and VO–OV Word‐Order Variation in Chinese Languages
Syntax, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 44-77, March 2021., 2021 Abstract This article addresses some issues related to Voice and little v. It does so by discussing and analyzing the variation that exists in the Chinese language family with respect to object placement (VO versus OV). It turns out that this variation can be accounted for straightforwardly as long as we assume, first, that Voice and v are sometimes ...
Rint Sybesma
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Typological variation across Sinitic languages [PDF]
, 2019 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
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From language to meteorology: kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic languages
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 Interactions among the environment, humans and language underlie many of the most pressing challenges we face today. This study investigates the use of different verbs to encode various weather events in Sinitic languages, a language family spoken over a
Chu-Ren Huang +3 more
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On Structural Particles in Sinitic Languages: Typology and Diachrony
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2022 In the Chinese linguistic tradition, the term ‘structural particle(s)’ (jiégòu zhùcí 结构助词) is used to refer to functional elements that mainly act as markers of adnominal modification, nominalisation, adverbial modification and in the so-called verb ...
Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco
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An Ethnolinguistic Remark on the fēiyī 飛衣
Bhasha, 2023 This paper inquires the relationship between two Trans-Himalayan languages, namely Lohorung (Eastern Kiranti) and Old Chinese (Sinitic) by comparing their ‘soul’-related vocabulary.
Hürlimann, Simon
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